Murder, rape, child-molestation comes to mind.
But really, passing a dog off as a service dog so you can take it places is pretty up there are the low-life-piece-of-raw-sewage list.
Of course I would feel more comfortable if I had Babsy with me every day, wherever I go. She should be there when I get a filling. She should be there if I need to have stitches or a surgery. She should be there when I go to the bank or store and have to actually talk to people. She would make me feel a lot more comfortable. The question is, do I NEED her to be there, and the answer is no.
For the OP the answer is also no. I am sorry, but, you say that you aren't doing it at this point, therefore at this point it is not necessary. And in most cases Emotional Support Dogs do not get all the same privileges as Service Dogs.
The people that have serious afflictions to the point where they cannot function without the aid of a dog or another human doing, if possible, what the dog can do for them, those people need for access for their dogs. Everyone else needs to take their dogs to dog friendly places and leave their dogs at home if they are going where dogs are generally not permitted.
It is not just that if you do it, 17 other people are going to do it. And for each of them 17 more people are going to do it. And while your dog is perfectly trained and social, many of those other dogs won't be. What a disabled person does not need is to be sitting in a restaurant and having her dog attacked by some faker's dog.
But it isn't just that. It is the fact that people should not feel entitled to something that for others requires some type of diagnosis. We are an arrogant generation. We think that we hurt more than anyone else, we feel more than anyone else, we should be allowed more than anyone else. And our dog won't hurt anyone.
Well, it does. The more abuses of this, the more people question it, and the more trouble people with real needs will have with it. And if you aren't sitting in a wheel chair with the dog's vest clearly stating what it is, then people will start questioning people who have legitimate service dogs.
If you think that you qualify, go to a doctor and get disability labeled, and do it the right way. It will get your dog access to places that the rest of us can't take our dogs, but it won't stop you from being liable if your dog does something he shouldn't so you had better make sure your dog is bomb proof too.
I could pass off one of my dogs as a service dog, all of us here probably could. I don't, for the same reason I don't park in handicapped spots: I don't need it. And I feel grateful that I don't. Maybe someday I will. And then, maybe I will figure it out that it isn't such a great thing to be able to take my dog everywhere. I'd rather have the restrictions on where my dog can go, than to have to have my dog with me everywhere.
What is wrong with people? Really?