I've been thinking a lot about "what is normal behavior?"

I think when it comes to topics of "justice" people have a lot of opinions. Because justice seems to be a very vague description of a much clearer truth. We all deserve human rights, but what are those rights exactly? I'm not trying to open up a political dialogue, but I feel like the introduction is necessary to see where I'm coming from.

Now, with any community there seems to be a certain code to follow. In any community or group, there is the sociological paradigm of "culture" and "social structure". We can generalize "social structure" as a code of conduct, or set of rules. But the culture within, the ways of feeling, thinking, and behaving, aren't a full representation of the rules set by the society. Culture is like a gaseous blob that lives based on the confines of the structure, but is also free from that structure. The sociological paradigm observes this as "norms", or how closely the behavior of members fits the laws set in place.

This all being said, what is the norm for League? We can talk about the explicitly descriptive codes of conduct until we're blue in the face. The rules are pretty clear, but the question isn't "social structure", it's "culture". It is a real science that when the culture, or behavior, of individuals is rigorously restricted by the standards of the "structure", then the very nature of culture is to act further outside the limitations set by the structure. To make an example of imagery: the culture is that gas and structure is the container. The container MUST allow enough room for the volume of the gas, or the gas will escape or the container will become stressed. Attempting to use a smaller balloon to contain the same volume of gas will either shatter the container or fail to contain the gas at all. The mindset, the culture, of people isn't very subject to change. And the real science of standardizing human behavior is that very physical sense of trying to bring something kinetic into a static state- which can only result in terrible vibrations as the object is still wrought with kinetic energy.

I have a tendency to digress...

When I play League, I know what the Rules are. I know the set standard placed on the behavior of the community. But when I observe the real behavior, the actual culture of the game- what I see is a system that is extremely restrictive to the point the culture is retaliatory to the restrictions being put in place. If you take a child with tons of energy and cram them into a playpen- they're going to explode. And we can argue about "maturity" too, but we as adults aren't even that mature. We follow patterns of behavior too. And this is just a game, so it's probably not the most relevant platform to discuss inequalities, but I see this pattern within the game.

The stricter, or more restricting the rules become, the more volatile the community will become by default. There is a natural behavior in the community, the more you restrict that behavior, the more you'll have to deal with "delinquency".

Because when you take natural behavior, and criminalize it, you won't change behavior as much as criminalize the normal behavior. In philosophy we call this "moving the goalposts".

It irnocally reminds me of the nursery rhyme "There were 5 in the bed and the little one said roll over". Where there is enough room for the members, but as long as someone keeps pushing the guidelines more people will just fall off.