LOL! always the same reaction when someone tells about a tactic that's frowned upon.
Guys, one thing, war stopped being honest when WWI started.
Before that time, two groups of people met each other on an open area, they drank some tea, ate some scones and then went at it. Fighting until noon, tea again, some patching up the more fortunate casualties and back to the fight until dusk.
Afterward was some award ceremony, declaration of the winner and done!
Then WWI came (the big one) and everything changed. If you could hook up a grenade to a dead enemy so you could blow up the medics of the enemy, boom medal earned for good thinking.
Hey why not drench the whole battlefield with chemicals! another one scored for the home-team (at least the ones that weren't on the fore-mentioned field at the time.)
Even today the army is switching to lighter guns. Lighter?! you are supposed to kill the enemy in a battle are you not? Indeed, but if you kill a guy, they let him be. If you wound him, they're going to fetch him so they can fix him.
So you're keeping 1 comrade who stays there to defend him, 2 medics, 1 driver, 1 doctor etc. busy for one wounded man.
In a period that you need every man on the battlefield, that's a lot of people.
So in short, war isn't about not exploiting the rules, or playing it fair. It's about winning and calculations.
If war was fair, Vietnam would have been a whole different story.
That's why I don't whine if a medic revives me only to have myself and the medic killed 0.01 second later because the sniper that got me in the first place shoots us again.
I don't even cry when a Titan crew bombards the only spawning-point of my team with Titan-canons so i can hardly escape.
Just let me get my points how i see fit. If it is by placing a ammo-box on a console whooptiedoo let me have my 4-5 points extra, I've just been killed three times by a dick who flew our chopper straight into a Titan.
Or some #$!^& who jumps in front of my speeding buggy trying to hitch a ride, gets run over, and then punish me for team-killing.
If anyone should be blamed for not playing fair it's those unforgiving 'i see you are planting C7 on the core, so i think i stand right next to it, and i punish you for TK when you detonate' crybabies.
Because THAT IS exploiting the games rules. I mean, when i was in the army i never heard any of that 'punishing for a TK' crap when i threw a grenade into the mess-hall. They all took it like a a man and said nothing!