LAST EDITED ON 11-23-15 AT 01:49 AM (EST)

I'm sure you've noticed that none of the shelters ever built had 4 walls to protect them from the wind and rain.

I have. But improvisation during extreme weather events is, to me, another matter entirely. Jason's private cave (during Micronesia) and Shambo's brush-fronted tree hollow (during Samoa) come to mind. And Jason's cave is only one instance of players using caves to protect themselves from the elements and/or (so they thought) prying eyes. Too, now that I think of it, weren't players permitted to construct and sleep in fully-enclosed and palm-roofed shelters during Gabon? With only narrow door-way openings? And Tony didn't even seem to need inclement weather to obtain a building permit for his Spy Shack.

So, the fact is that anything and anyone that Survivor's production crew wishes to record (inside or outside of any structure) can be memorialized with remotely-operated cameras and microphones no larger than a coin. 24/7/39.

And I would much rather see how clever - or, thinking of Rupert's sand castle, how foolish - the players can be than to bear witness to how miserable they can be made.

Maybe some of the players that have quit over the years were players that didn't want to comply.

I would think that that is probably true. Because to participate in Challenges, or to sit for the length of a Confessional or a Tribal Council, or to forego eating because my Tribe wasn't resourceful enough to protect a fire is one thing, but to have some rain-slickered jerk tell me that I couldn't use my wits and my Tribe's freely-given or fairly-won commodities to shelter myself and others in our camp during a days-long storm because he needed us to be as utterly wretched as possible for his camera's benefit is quite another.

But, I wouldn't quit. I would stay under that warm, dry, little over-turned boat until they were forced to fire me. Along with, I would hope, enough of my tribemates to make the exercise a serious - but reversible - error ...