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RTFA everyone. Board games weren't banned out of an abundance of malice.



No policy is ever enacted in such a way that an abundance of malice is the express basis.

This restriction has no basis in science or sense. A respiratory pathogen may provide another in a long line of childish excuses, but make no mistake: slavery itself is an abundance of malice.


Where did slavery come into this?


"except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted" [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...




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