Purpose

K asks why writing a handbook or protocol or guideline could boost up one's ego.

What a question ! On the contrary, if we follow the logic of Sigmund Freud or Arthur Schopenhauer, we should ask: Could there be any other reason for writing up those things besides ballooning up the ego ?

Let's take away the consideration of metaphysics and psychology. In general, there are a few reasons for our friends on Pluto to write a handbook or guideline:

1. I (or the board or council) exist.
2. (Since we get funding to improve the service,) we have done some work.
3. We are independent and we think independently. Therefore we will not blindly follow the existing guideline across the Atlantic (or the Victoria harbour).
4. (To their juniors) we have told you what to do; we will not bare any responsibility for your mistake.

And, as the traditional teaching in Zuo Zhuan (左傳), there are three ways of being immortal: 太上有立德，其次有立功，其次有立言.

For sure the first two are beyond the reach of most of us. That's why many creatures on Pluto go for the last - and mistake it as the second.

PS. You may find my argument familiar. Yes, I wrote a similar thing on this blog some months ago. That's a traditional wisdom: It doesn't matter everything has been said - nobody was listening.