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It is mental logic. Cheating is wrong if it's blatant, but it's not cheating if not's blatant.

I think the Ramdin punishment opened up a massive bag of worms. But what Broad did happens three or four times in every match. Just like 7 or 8 times in every Albion match a player appeals for an offside, throw-in, foul, dive knowing that he shouldn't? Or tugs a shirt or runs across someone...

Tooting, do you manage to enjoy Albion games at all? because on minutely basis we're cheating then

If teams used them only to over-turn blatant errors rather than marginal ones the system would work fine. What you're suggesting would make it worse as they could use them for marginal ones with the knowledge that a blatant error will get picked up on anyway.

Indeed, there were at least four edges to keeper in the test and only Bairstow walked, yet everyone else has escaped criticism

Vaughan and an Aussie on TMS said this and i'm not sure I understand this. You give teams two referrals to cut out umpiring errors. They choose to use them on marginal calls and as a result don't have a referral for an actual error. You think in that case the third umpire should intervene...