[blml] re claim

[Eric Landau]

On Jan 2, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Herman De Wael wrote:

> Brian wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 12:23:31 -0000
>> <gesta at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>           In my opinion, past statements of principle by the
>>> WBFLC continue to apply unless incompatible with law;
>>
>> So what you're saying, Grattan, if I may rephrase it, is that any
>> entity or individual wanting to accurately determine the current
>> understanding of any law must attempt to access all WBFLC minutes,
>> right back to the inception of the WBFLC, just in case there is a
>> "statement of principle" that is still in force, i.e. one that has  
>> not
>> been voided by becoming "incompatible with law".
>
> Yes Brian, that is what you need to do.
> There is a lot you need to know, other than the laws themselves. That
> is what a course in directing is for.
>
> The current debate is, IMHO, over the top.
> The laws are clear, again IMHO.
> A claim and a concession go hand-in-hand, and there is no way to have
> one without the other.
> That should follow from the laws, but there are idiots who think
> otherwise.
> The 2001 statement by the WBF was merely to say, very politely, that
> those who think otherwise, are wrong (and idiots).
>
> That statement is not needed to continue to understand the laws as
> written. Since those laws are basically unchanged, there is no need to
> add in the lawbook "and those that think otherwise are idiots".
>
> I apologize to anyone who may find himself included in a category of
> idiots. I do not think you are an idiot, merely misguided.

No offense taken; I've been called worse.  But who is the bigger idiot:

(a) A person who, lacking Herman's mental acuity, cannot understand a  
law that is "clear... I [his] HO" or what "should follow", or

(b) A person publishing a lawbook who must select either a version of  
a law that could be misunderstood only by idiots or one that could  
not be misunderstood by anyone, even idiots, and knowingly chooses  
the former?


Eric Landau
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