Rules, Miss M (and others quoting FCL), are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.
Explain (if you can legibly do so), Watersidewonker; the difference between power and responsibility.
The problem, CC, is that a majority do not like to think of themselves as hewers of wood and drawers of water or, to put it another way, stewards and stewardesses. One of you, a while back on this entertaining thread, used the term “my pilots”, which summed it up for me, emanating from an otherwise articulate and seemingly reasonable CC. God knows what the other 92% think.