The Doomsday Scenario and the Red Herring

I find it furious that people seem to be okay with systems where it's like, ah, there's a crazy thing that can happen, but it'll never happen. And so I was just seeing a lot of people like calling for faithless electors. But if rules mean anything, you have to have a kind of fundamentalist reading of the rules. Think about how does it actually work when you don't have a team to be rooting for? That's the question that's impossible to separate in people's minds. If you didn't have a side, would you be okay with a system that allows an unknown council of people to overturn one person's election result? You're doing the same thing