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Ben Halpern

I'll add that all of this is sort of imaginary and the reason the parents want you to adhere to these rules is because then they won't have to re-explain the rules every time. Divergence from the rules sometimes happens, because there's a lot of randomness human flaw involved in the coordination.

So if you're not sure why to use REST, because I said so is an okay answer. Uniformity is good, so you should have a really good reason for wanting to do things differently.