I have a new concern (every time I think about these rules I think of a new concern.)
Advocating illegal activities.
According to whose legislation?
Can I advocate two sixteen year olds having sex because I'm British and thus the legal Age of Consent for me is and always has been sixteen? Even if 'illegal' is defined strictly as American Law, which American law? there are differences between state law that could actually have a big impact on a discussion.
A while ago I had an argument with someone over whether cyclists should be allowed on the roads, and as part of my counter agurment I used the British taxing system, which makes it illegal for a car to be on the road without road tax. However, since they were Canadian the argument was rendered moot because they have a different form of taxation. Neither of us were American, so whose definition of 'legal' should we have been following exactly?
There are other more serious examples of course, but someone could be making an argument for gun control based on a law which isn't shared across states, or on capital punishment, or any number of religious acceptance and equal opportunity laws which aren't shared, so in that case, whose law is better, and by saying that you take part in an activity which isn't illegal to you but is to the person you're debating with, which side will the moderators take?
This one should probably have occured to me when I first joined, but now I start to really look at the forum rules, there are holes everywhere.