"rights" are just how people learn to internalize abstract domination and alienation as their conditions of freedom. they take equality before the law, equality as possessions of the sovereign as a promise of freedoms and find comfort in it
was thinking about this while watching a discussion about a competitive yugioh player getting banned for making a clerical error and saw some people shouting that this was good because it's showing that konami doesnt give preferential treatment to it's top players and that made me stop and think for a bit.
it just sounded like i heard someone cheer for konami being as unthinking and machinelike as possible. they prefer the state that konami doesnt have the interest to make sure unfortunate mistakes dont happen because they probably dont have the bandwidth to make sure less well connected people dont get screwed by this rule. they prefer consistent abstract domination to having the game be slightly more fun to play for more people
people take comfort in the fact that others around them are kneecapped in the same way they are and it's so fucking creepy. it looks like a conspiracy of the mediocre to maintain their position in society by hammering down any nail that sticks up. that's why they all love underdog stories, they're still the children of slaves
this person, who is not being paid by konami will rack their brain coming up with all sorts of possible explanations for why they had to make the rule and why actually they need to be this harsh with arbitrary rules or else it might be hard for them to run events cost efficiently. their ego is wrapped up with the company because a substantial part of their identity to others is mediated by this company. seeing their fates intertwined they fall in line, ready to defend
