Agreed. We should legislate/codify/write rules to the norm, not to the exception. That's the flaw found in too many organizing documents (the constitution of the state of Oklahoma in the US comes to mind immediately - they wrote it to the exception, ended up with several hundred pages, and have to have a constitutional amendment almost every year). Organizing documents (such as rules/codes) should generally be written very broadly. If we write a new rule for every situation, soon you have so many rules that no one reads them at all...
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On Jul 1, 2009, at 11:39 AM, David Goodman wrote:
The best way is keeping this so exceptional that we do not even make rules about it. People will always go outside of the rules if they think there is a true emergency. Even were we to say, never do it, yet people would if they think it justified.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG