If you believe that it is unsafe to fly IFR without a proper alternate and proper quantities of fuel for diversion hold etc then even if the law in one part says to fly you only need enough fuel to take-off and land you can not use that as an excuse for unsafe operation which is the other part of the law that you will be breaking and your insurers will use to avoid their bill.
DFC,
I think you are in your own little world, trying to argue with things that weren't said. What I said was "Bookwork made no claim was to what was safe." That's all I said about that. Nowhere did I or Bookwork say that it was either safe or unsafe to plan in such events.
The difference is not between IR and IMC holders
That is all the Bookwork was trying to get across to you.