Role playing

[Coin]

Football/soccer is a game. without rules (or the even-handed enforcement of those rules) we get:
balls crossing the line and being disallowed: eng v ger 2010
hands touching ball into path of striker: eng v argentina 1984
ball NOT crossing the line and being given: eng v w.ger 1966

how much discussion has been given/will be given to these events? WHY?

because it is the implementation of the rules that are more important than the rules themselves.

for example: thou shalt not steal (unless you happen to be a multinational corporation)
thou shalt not pollute (unless you happen to be a government).

people dont really get offended by laws, only privilege (the word means 'private-law'). the get offended at inequality; 'well they can RP as terrorists, so i shall also'.

so, this is what i propose...
everyone who has/will post in this thread (you feel strongly enough to post) takes one of the rules, and finds an exemplary disciplinary thread, where the rule-breaker has q-q'd his way to oblivion and rage-quit or something,

and then we pin it in the 'Welcome to disco' subforum, so new peeps can read and say to themselves 'I pity da foo' in a reasonable facsimile of B. A. Baracus

there is no point creating a qq thread about the parlous state of discovery roleplay unless your willing to actually do something about it.

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