It seems arbitrary is what it is. Sure, you can try to shoehorn laws and rulings post-facto and try to imagine that the spirit of the law always would have inte

It seems arbitrary is what it is. Sure, you can try to shoehorn laws and rulings post-facto and try to imagine that the spirit of the law always would have intended this or that interpretation. But it's all really just a huge tug of war about who's the bigger stick, so to speak. There's always objection, i.e.: if it's not physical, what is it - imaginary?