(March 18, 2018 at 6:47 pm)Wololo Wrote:(March 18, 2018 at 2:32 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Great post rr
What's so good about it? It is the very definition of somebody eating their cake and then trying to make out they still have it.
That post, in fact, would be a perfect application for the UK's brexit negotiation team, it's so full of cakeism.
Despite what rr tries to argue applying the law while ignoring the spirit of it does not free one from following the laws, it is an admonition for one to follow the laws as they were meant to be implemented and not in a perverse way which while grammatically true, still manages to twist the meaning of the law and allow one to commit actions contrary to intent.
A situation would be where you intend to kill someone so you plan your actions in order that you goad them into going for you first, in an attempt to claim you killed them in self-defence. While some readings of most murder laws would allow, grammatically at least, you to get off for murder, if it were found out that you planned the course of action from day one, you'd be convicted (assuming equally competent judge, solicitors & barristers and 12 good people, fair and true).
Once you realise that road runner is twisting the meaning of "obey the letter but not the spirit", then you realise that his argument falls flat on its face.
Lol ok
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
