Originally Posted by
Firefly33
Gotta say I disagree while I agree a bit. It is not raiding that promotes that attitude, it is team activity. You make it sounds like this is something unique for raiding. In any team activity, people want to play with people with equal interest and skill. Team activities are by nature exclusive, be that football, raiding or joining grannys nitting team. It is nothing weird in it at all. People do not want to be dragged down in the interest by people worse than them in whatever said thing is. A team is only as strong as it weakest links. As such, they want to do said activity with people as good as or better than themselves. That might be called exclusivity, but I would just call it nature and natural selection.
When I used to practice team sports such as football, handball or basket, whatever basically. I did not care if some kid completely sucked at playing that sport in his own backyard. But if that kid was playing on my team, not even being interested in what we were doing, payed no attention to becoming a better player, were just bad in general and dragged the entire team down to losses, then he would be called bad, lazy and such. Since in contrast to the rest of the team, he was bad and lazy. Again, I dont think that is exclusivity.