(May 29, 2015 at 1:41 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Appreciated and not simply for being contrary for contrary's sake; there really is a distinction between descriptive laws (as in science) and proscriptive ones (as in the legal realm). It is vital that we agree on definitions at the outset, otherwise we just end up talking past one another.
Absolutely:
"The beginnig of wisdom is the definition of the terms." - Plato