[Chickensoup]

I am not trying to be snarky. I just cannot understand why it is regulated.

[familyop]

"I am not trying to be snarky. I just cannot understand why it is regulated."

Good etiquette is enforced by many for the general purpose of preventing some people from interfering with the communications of many others (honorable collective goal) and the specific purpose of keeping oneself from getting busted (individual behavioral enhancement).

;-)