RULE TO BREAK

People have a right to know

There’s nothing more fun than passing on a juicy bit of news to a friend. And sometimes it can help everyone. You can bring people together who hadn’t realised they had something in common, or do someone a favour by explaining their situation to the right person. Of course not all gossip is helpful, but it doesn’t have to be malicious either. A Rules player never indulges in malicious gossip. And anyway, there’s so much benign gossip, why would you need to?

There are more categories than just benign or malicious though, aren’t there? There’s news that you’ve been asked not to mention, but in this situation you can’t see how it can hurt. There’s news that you weren’t specifically asked not to discuss, ...

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