>>>>You enjoy not having a choice, because you implicitly choose to do what you're told.
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>>I enjoy a bit of rebellion and chaos as much as anybody, but in the end I honor the social compact because I've seen the alternative... in parts of Africa where people truly do have the luxury of doing whatever they please, at least until they run into somebody else also doing as they please with a better weapon.
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>I bet Tamar's head would explode before she could admit that the terms and conditions were changed in order to ban Rick and that the rest of us can actually mention religion and religious things from time to time without worrying about getting a spanking.

The rules were changed because Rick's behavior was alienating Michel's paying customers. Michel made a business decision. Rick made a decision to break the rules, knowing he'd be banned.

As I said elsewhere, Foxite introduced a similar rule a few weeks ago, and Rick's having no trouble obeying that one for the moment. So he is capable of dropping the religious talk; he just chose not to here.

So no, I don't think the rules were changed "in order to ban Rick." I think the rules were changed in an attempt to change Rick's behavior.

Tamar