>>713750328
How about a fun little thought-experiment instead?
Say you have a son in elementary and the principal tells everyone
>"Kids, from now on you can pay with a ticket before you write an exam."
>"If you don't pay with a ticket, you get one worse grade than if you did."
>"However! If most students don't buy these tickets in the coming months, we'll remove this system."
>"The cafeteria now sells these tickets, by the way"
>your kid asks what do
>you proudly tell your kid not to buy the tickets because it's a bad practice and it will be cheaper to not buy tickets in the future, "vote with your wallet" you tell him
>and you're right, if things continue and the system goes down, it's mathematically (objectively) optimal to avoid a worse grade while also not having to pay anything
>but some kids start to make a trend around buying tickets and others just adhere to herd mentality
>maybe some jocks start to bully those who don't buy tickets and some kids feels intimidated
>maybe teachers put up posters in the school saying "BUY TICKETS NOW! YOU DON'T WANT BAD GRADES RIGHT?" because the school and its teachers gets a portion of the ticket revenue by the way
>no matter how right you are, it's still one kid against a few hundred
>the system stays in place even if your kid went in optimistically that it's a bad idea and you just don't have to buy the tickets to stop this insanity
So what do you do? Do you continue with telling your son to just keep off from the tickets because that's all he needs to do or will you tell the cops that this may be unethical?
You also could just take your kid to a different school but if this parasitic system works, what's stopping other schools from doing this too?

dudes... how "disconnected" are you right now?

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