Except the "fully organized group" isn't the INTENT, it's the player-created EXCEPTION. They know the rules, and they know the way it works. Getting mad at the world for not bending to you and your friends' almighty will is the messed up part, here.
Imagine that a new set of Pokemon cards come out, and if you can buy the whole box, you get the whole set, guaranteed! So you and your buddies at the Lower East Side Pokemon Fight Club agree to buy one pack each - your group wants the whole set, and if you can't get all the packs you won't get that guaranteed win!
But then - HORRORS - a little girl comes in and has the GALL to not recognize how tough it was to get 25 40-year-old Pokemon nerds into a single shop at the same time. And when you explain to her you guys really NEED all the cards because if you can't have ALL the cards life isn't worth living, and organizing big groups of nerds is hard, and then hint that you can't guarantee she won't have a horrible accident on the way home if she sticks around.
But she just wants to buy a pack. She heard this new set was cool! And, EVEN WORSE, she's third-last in line because Jerry and Steve were 5 minutes late. So in spite of your group's allegedly-justified moral outrage, she buys her pack anyway. Because there's no rule that says she can't, and she saved up, just like the rest of you.
Then you slash her bike's tyres on the way out, and congratulate yourselves on a job well done because HOW DARE SHE. We're clearly in the right because... something about Discord, for some reason..?
That's kinda the vibe, here.
And, I've gotta be honest - "the organized group did nothing wrong anyway" is a heck of a take to have, given the acknowledged "they deliberately got someone killed and refused to rez them" part of the story. You can say you would've done the same because you feel your prioities outweigh everyone else's all the time, but it doesn't make it "nothing wrong."


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