On Codifying Conduct

In which I muse upon the insufficiency of the reasonable person principle.

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"Yes, in theory.
No, in practice."

In theory, everything that works in theory should work in practice.

In practice...

It seems obvious to me. Then again, I learned in my first week programming that the obvious stuff is what goes horribly wrong in ways that are hard to track.

I like this baseline.

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