pembroke, you are absolutely right that an instructor should be there to "help people continue flying or come back to flying". Yes, indeed LASORS is there for guidance - but the caveat must be that it is only guidance.
Without wishing to re-open the topic again (which I think has been rather beaten to death here), there are places - and the paragraph on the revalidation "Training Flight" is a prime example - where LASORS actually becomes misinformation, that is to say when it acts as a vehicle for imparting opinions, rather than indexing legislative fact. That is a great shame because it serves to devalue an otherwise sensible reference document.
In your hypothetical Court Case, imagine the prosecution asking "you say it says so in LASORS - I see, and what exactly then is the legal basis for your actions?" You then need to refer to the actual legislation - where would you be then?
I have no wish to re-open the "flood-gates" but I thought your valid point needed a response.
JD
PS Were you a FEEP ?