Originally Posted by roberino

I don't know if anyone has read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, but he describes how "cheating" or displaying leeching behaviour as a component of a whole group is beneficial to the population, however, if the proportion of leeches becomes too great the population suffers and will likely die.

It seems an apt metaphor for boarding group cheaters - the system can tolerate a certain number of them and the population as a whole may actually benefit from their behaviour in small numbers (as they're on the plane and being less of a bother to everyone else) but if the proportion of cheaters gets too high then chaos ensues and the plane is delayed. The GA's have to try and catch the cheaters out or their numbers will swell but their existence will prevail unless something is done to terminate repeated attempts at their behaviour, i.e. banning serial cheaters from the airline.

Anyway... Just a bit of Monday fun.