Summoning Spirits, Obedience and expectations Options

[Paul]

This is a spin off from another thread, where a player suggested it's okay to summon a high powered spirit, in this case a force ten I think, and use it to plan "the run", as they put it. Dakka Dakka seems to most vocally support this, quoting a small blurb in Street magic:

When a spirit owes services and a service is requested, however, the spirit must obey. A service can either be situational (such as “Help fight these Triad enforcers” or “Put out that fire”) or power-related (such as “Sustain Concealment on me until I ask you to stop”). If a spirit is asked to perform a specific task, it will use any and all powers in its arsenal to complete that task, but will terminate those powers once the task is complete. If the spirit is asked to use a single power, it will continue to do so for as long as it is able to or until the conjurer asks it to cease.

As his backing behind this idea.

I feel this ignores a vast swath of what summoning entails, including a lot of the flavor text in the core book that says spirits oppose being bound, and dislike it. It also ignores flavor text that states the nature of spirits is one metahumanity doesn't quite understand, and it ignores a small blurb on how GMs should play spirits as NPC's. But mostly I think it's a dick move, and the SR4 equivalent of entering a cheat code.

Even if we ignore that a spirit is an alien intelligence from extra dimensional plane, who may or may not be able to help the PC's in any significant way (Smarter than the PC's does not equate to able to plan in depth "Shadowrun", or a sound tactical or strategic plan.), and even if we ignore that a spirit, even a bound one that is immensely friendly to the PC's may have it's own goals-this just sits wrong with me.

Now I am not posting this thread to attack Dakka, but rather instead of bogging the other thread down with more of this discussion I thought I'd move it here. I greatly believe in that everyone runs their own game, and there is no one true way, only whatever is fun. But I am curious what would you do if the players tried to do this in your game? Why?