Re: [RFC] [Draft] Adopt Code of Conduct
| From: | David Zuelke | Date: | Sun, 10 Jan 2016 02:41:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] [Draft] Adopt Code of Conduct | ||
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On 06.01.2016, at 12:31, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6 January 2016 19:42:29 GMT, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I love it how The Law spends so much text and yet leaves so much
>> unspecified and open to interpretation.
>
> Welcome to Common Law. Defining the details is basically the job of judges, applying the intent
> of the law to individual cases as they come up. This generally turns out to be better than trying to
> codify every possible scenario in advance and leaving loopholes - as long as you trust your
> judiciary!
That works for the Common Law, because professionals with specialized education and training do
this, but it does not work for a CoC, where a bunch of well-intentioned amateurs (and no,
that's not intended to be offensive, but an objective observation; it's quite sad that I
have to point that out) are expected to perform the ruling that allows "the law" to
evolve.