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Originally Posted by eschwartz
There are so many good examples of the literal law vs the spirit of the law where the literal law wins out...
The problem with the "spirit of the law" idea is that there is no law that says you have to obey the spirit of the law. So whenever the two end up going head to head, the spirit learns about evolution...
But you can always complain about their actions. I'm sure they and every other company (i.e. most/all of the big ones) that routinely does end runs around the law care sooooo much. 
If lawmakers make stupid meaningless laws, people will take advantage of it. What is their incentive not to? |
It seems it wasn't an unexpected response. Alan Spade posted on the
Passive Voice with an interesting
link (in French, of course) in which Amazon promised penny shipping if the law passed...and this promise was made eighteen months ago.