The dicussion of interpretation of the regs on this thread brings to mind a conversation I once had with an acquaintance of mine whom is a practising Lawyer.
He had read through various regs purely out of curiousity as he is not a pilot. His comment to me was that he was amazed that pilots were expected to understand and interpret them, as he as a lawyer even had difficulty in interpreting some of them.
'Nuff said!'