Brennan Lee Mulligan has a story about a kid at camp who was very good at using his words, and used that ability to bully and belittle other kids at the camp. And a kid finally hit him for it, and he was shocked the counselors wouldn't do anything about it. And Brennan explains to the kid "you have this ability, if you use it to abuse those without that ability they will find other ways to make their displeasure known."

And I find myself thinking about this story a lot these days, both in the context of the increasingly naked capture of our society by the rich and in the context of people thinking they're going to LLM rules lawyer big companies' copyright. It feels like people are increasingly trying to find loopholes in the system of our rules-based society, and have forgotten that the rules are an agreement, not physics, and if you break the spirit of the agreement badly enough, the letter of the agreement is not going to save you.

People will find other ways to make their displeasure known.