You're right TS, people do chip unnecessarily. You'll see that no one can really explain why, and when you ask why you tend to get attacked. I think it's because of our unconscious mind. Like why should a credit card approach the Golden Ratio, or structures have right angles? You can say it's easier to make things with right angles and straight lines but I don't think that's the reason why we use them. It's a rationalisation, like chipping wood on the verge as it's a 'fire risk' lol.
However I couldn't think of a better example. We are just evolved to find straight lines and right angles pleasing and satisfying. People want the wood chipped because it's satisfying and 'complete' and 'tidy'. We also have an instinct to get at people who question dogma - it helped us to survive and reproduce in the past, if everyone was complying with the leadership.
People don't tend to like to leave nature alone, they won't wait for a natural wood to grow for instance, they want to plant trees, all the same age, in rows and columns etc.
