Ratings

Sometimes I just push pieces around the board to relax a bit, or try crazy things. "I wonder if THIS sacrifice would work? I'm not gonna think it thru, let's just see what happens." 

I've never payed any attention to my rating. I don't care about it, and I'm not aware that it carries any benefit. But I'm being told that I'm hurting myself, and I should switch to unrated games to goof off. But the only consequence is a lowered rating, which offends me not at all. Am I causing myself any difficulty? 

WTF are you asking?bub

Well that is an approach that might reveal perhaps a move you never thought about that would be the only benefit. Why rate your experimention time and then your ratings will become meaningless over time and then you would have all categories with non-offensive scores included which you would have scores that really tell you nothing!