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It really is not a sandbox. It is more like a sports stadium. Without participants and an audience, it is just a lot of grass to cut.
This is a really good analogy ... particularly as regards the NFL stadiums these days. Loud and raucous behavior has historically been tolerated as "part of the experience". And like anything else that involves a gathering of human beings, there will always be those who just have to see how far they can push the envelope. And so the "standards" get pushed farther and farther until they reach a point where a large enough percentage of participants decide it's not tolerable ... and they either start to protest or they leave. Then the "authorities" decide to crack down.
Maybe if people just exercised a tiny bit of self-restraint, it wouldn't become necessary. We all live in a society ... where for practical reasons, getting along sometimes supersedes our "right" to do what we want. Most folks learn this at an early age ... some, unfortunately, never do ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)