Eh Yendor, you make good points but, I think most of the rules are good too. I do however, agree that the handing camps off to guildies despite who else has been waiting is ridiculous. There is only one reason that rule exists.
You are standing in line at the supermarket. Some guy calls his friends up in front of you, one, then two, then three... what will happen?
You are standing in line at the register to a video store, you look down at your cell phone as the guy at the register gets done. Someone else jumps in front of you claiming you weren't at the register when it was open. What happens next?
If you really wanted to cut down on a great majority of the nonsense that goes on, the first thing you enforce is common courtesy. None of this 'We are sitting 2 inches closer so it is our camp" foolishness. We do need rules, but there is an awful lot of people who seek to take advantage, or twist the reason for the rules. Common sense should govern, not sub paragraph 4 of section 8 of the 32nd page of some by-law. Or "we saw you sitting 6 feet away, and you need to be 5 feet away to claim the camp even though you have been there 2 hours...".
In my first example what happens is people in line say something. They get vocal, the person at the register may say something. The manager gets called. If the guy won't step back to the end , or leave the store, the police get called. Or perhaps he gets his ass whipped by someone (or someones) nearby. If you just wait your turn in line, you get to check out, go home, and enjoy your food. The police don't have to waste their time dealing with it.
But because we don't use common sense or courtesy first, we have people racing to get to the line first, we have people pushing people aside, butting in line, doing all sorts of things which are normally unacceptable in society. And they are encouraged in their behavior due to the twisting, or interpreting of the rules. Then the police come, and have to deal with it. And they throw everyone in line in jail. Or everyone in the storehas to leave. All we have to do is 'play nice'.
The person in front of you isn't paying attention when the line moves. You say, "Excuse me" and get their attention. Not create a scene where someone needs to call the police. Or get yourself banished from the Woolsworth.
The examples of standing in line at a store of some kind is more apt... not fishing with ak-47s...
"Le sens commun est fort rare."
One could also say "Il est dangereux d’avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort."
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