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Originally Posted by jyl
"Reasonable" isn't that wide a range. One of them is wrong.
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That depends on who you talk to.
I get what you're saying, but it sounds an awful lot like the "tyranny of the majority" cloaked in legalese.
Who decides what "reasonable" is then? And more importantly, what the range of "reasonable" behaviors is? Do we identify a median and then establish what one standard deviation is from that median? Is that "reasonable"? Two standard deviations? What exactly?
Oh, I know - we'll just continually re-test it in the courts, ensuring a non-stop endless supply of money to lawyers.
"Reasonable" in this sense only exists to make lawyers rich and keep the courts busy (I suspect it indirectly encourages our society to be as ridiculously litigous as it is today too...)
Maybe we should just accept people's right to be different and decide what's best or "reasonable" for them, rather than trying to prescribe and dictate it to them. One of the things I love about America is that we (supposedly) value individuality here. If I wanted homogeneity, I'd go to China.