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> I understand the spirit of the law, but I do not feel like that can override an analytical interpretation.

You may feel so, but our entire legal tradition is based on the idea that this is not the case. In fact, no active legal tradition I'm aware of nation holds strictly to analytical interpretations of its laws. This is one aspect of the world it's better to accept as a fact of life, I believe there's good reason it's what everyone has settled on.




This makes enormous sense, and, incidentally, shows why the notion of "smart contracts", "the code is the law", etc. is pure folly.


If this indeed the case it explains the true power these organizations and current legislature have, which I do find worrisome.

I believe that this situation may be a failure of that way of working.




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