Simon Stelling wrote:
> Richard Brown wrote:
>> Respectfully, you're wrong. When you're writing a
>> policy document we do need to dissect every word.
>
> I disagree with that. At least in my country, laws are written in a
> flexible enough way to give judges the ability to interprete the law
> to a certain extend, and it works just great. I don't see why we have
> to dissect every word, especially since it makes it so easy to not to
> see the wood for the trees. The goal of the CoC is fairly vague
> ('getting along well'), so why is there a need to specify the way
> ulta-explicit?
>That may be true but then you run into Judges that start writing the laws instead of interpreting the law. There needs to be rules and they need to be spelled out clearly so that the people know what they are. If a person doesn't understand the rules, then how will they know what they are doing is wrong. Basically, if the rules are not clear enough for every body to understand, then there is no need to have them in the first place. Please, don't even get me started on loop holes. ;-) Dale A lowly user who wants this mess to stop happening. -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
