I thought things had carmed down a bit. Clearly not.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law; but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him.
So said John Selden.
The problem CS is that even if you are correct, for laws to be effective they must be promulgated in a reasonable way to those that might be expected to obey the law.
I cant help feeling that if the CAA was concerned about this matter they would have introduced enabling legislation to outlaw their use in the ANO, the first place a pilot would look for an issue of this sort, whereas your analogy with murdering your wife is not relevant, because a pilot would not look in the ANO to see if this was legal to do so.
Moreover, it would seem reasonable to test pilots specifically on such an important issue (if indeed it was as important as this thread suggests) in the PPL, or CPL writtens, whereas I have never seen such a question.
Whoever was writing to the CAA might like to also bring this to their attention.
I love these smiles - hopefully it will bring peace, tranquility etc etc to all concerned.