You will always hit a dead end in rationalizing with people if you flat out say competition was never intended or isn't healthy for the server and its population. Fact is, many people enjoy the thrill of racing against runners or guilds to prep and engage targets. Straight up, that shit is a blast.
Now where I think you might have ground to communicate is the premise of variance. Variance is obviously one of the most talked about issues with the raid scene, but its proposed goal (stop poopsocking) obviously has had little effect (not to mention its nonclassicness!)
Reduced variance enables many people to make time to actually get on the line.
Three step solution to the raid scene:
Reduce variance to 2-4 hours
Biweekly repops with a +/- 3 day variance on Wednesdays.
Have any rules written enforced and leave anything unsaid permissible. If you don't write down rules, you can never expect people to follow them. Someone comes up with a strat that ultimately is deemed as wrong, write it down as a rule. if someone breaks it after that, suspend/ban them. No gray area bullshit, make a plain as day representation of the rules that you will enforce and leave everything else fair game.
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