You sound a bit like one of the engineers you sometimes argue with here. The kind of engineer that wants some area of law to be a black and white rules based system where everything is decided based on a perfectly clean application of logic.<p>But you know that&#x27;s not how society works. And it&#x27;s not how the law works either. There are tremendous grey areas in which rules try to balance competing interests in a way that ends up being, more or less, fair. This balance is based on ideas of messy humans and the culture we&#x27;ve built up over thousands of years. It&#x27;s not cognitive dissonance when we end up with a rule that is bases on more than the precise scientific inputs. It&#x27;s just the way our law and culture works.