I am quite certain that there is a direct correlation between being able to devote larger than average amount of your time to playing and wanting to roll on a PvP realm. If I could afford to spend most of every day and night playing, I would have a lot more interest in rolling PvP. Since my playtime is relatively precious, I dont want to spend most of it rezzing while trying to do dailies.

If my presumption is correct, it only makes sense that the cream of the progression guilds would tend to come from PvP realms. It has less to do with the hardening effect of getting ganked and far more to do with being able to stay up all night and spend all day playing -- raiding, ganking, paying folks back for ganking, whatever.

There are also state by state licensure requirements for lawyers, with criminal penalties attached to them. Most attorneys are only licensed to practice law in a handful of states at most. Applying law to facts in a professional capacity in a state in which you are not licensed is a no no, and one that bars you belong to wouldnt look upon any more highly than the bar of a state you werent licensed in. Of course, the likelihood of anyone inferring an attorney client relationship from a post on /. and acting in reliance upon it, and then suing you or contacting a state bar association about that is slim, but a small disclaimer attempting to prevent that is still probably not a bad idea.

Economic loss as a basis for measuring harm and remedies has its basis in the Common Law, and is not some kind of recent creation by the US or by that token a measure of its society. I would be quite surprised if there wasnt a similar requirement in any legal system derived from the British Common Law.