 It may seem otherwise, because the persons to whom laws are addressed can be extraordinarily creative in finding ways of fitting the laws to their own interests, and parties to a dispute over the law tend to disagree deeply over the effect of the language that has been used to make law (so that it is not at all unusual for each side to end up with a deeply-felt conviction that the law is so clearly on his or her own side, that no reasonable person could think otherwise). So it seems, as Marmor argues, that the use of language to make law is not part of a cooperative exchange between lawmakers and the persons to whom their communications are addressed.