Smuggling Is Not Unlawful

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However, this opens up a debate about other lawful IDs (police, military etc.). There are still bad police officers and military members, after all. If that is the case, what is even the point of IDs?

ID's don't exist in the role play environment. They exist as an out of roleplay limitation system because without them, everyone could fly any ship with any loadout and shoot everybody and that kills the purpose of this being a role play server. ID's with their do's and don'ts are good guide as to how you're supposed to play a certain character, but a lot is left to the imagination of the player.

For example I used to play mainly on a Pirate ID.

Does it mean I MUST go "yarr harr ye ain' taking ma bounty ye polike skoom!" whenever I am approached by a lawful player? Hell no, there was one instance when I was in a indie pirate faction and me and a few buddies ended up having to fly in CR space, a CR patrol stopped us and threatened to kill us for being pirates, so then I went like "What makes you think we are pirates? We haven't bothered anyone in your space, you don't see us pirating anyone, do you?"

A discussion followed and then CR agreed that we can stay in their space as long as we don't cause any trouble. Bam. Role play has been had, and neither CR nor we did go robotic mode on our ID's, people had fun and no rules were broken.