G. wrote:
The argument on the other side is: there may be good reasons to punish someone on a per-rule basis if they use this to scam around the lower-powered requirement.
If they're scamming, then they could equally scam the higher-powered rule to say "rules to the contrary notwithstanding, X SHALL <NOT> do Y". So you'd need some sort of criminal court to follow up on those good reasons.
