What is the benefit of removing transferred credits from your permanent record?

[cookderosa]

This is the one I was thinking about...if the excess credits could be used towards another degree. Hmmmm. I assumed removing them would be ethical if COSC is allowing it.

Putting an unused class on a transcript in effect "uses it up" without getting to use it toward a degree. You're essentially allowing it to be discarded.
I've read threads where people ask if taking CLEP instead of a class is "ethical." I'd put this in the same category. If you follow the rules, you're not being unethical unless you believe the rule is wrong. (and there is a poster here of that mind-set, so you'll have to decide how YOU feel and act accordingly)