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I've seen a lot of confusion about "this" in javascript, to the point of multiple articles making it to the front page of hacker news on the topic. Law is like

• gknoy 8y ago
  Not only that, but disagreements about what something means is often a Very Hard Problem, and even when courts judge something one way or another, there are many people who _disagree strongly_, and hope to either change the judiciary, or change the laws to more explicitly favor their position. (This is, as far as I recall, how one is supposed to resolve disagreements about what the law _should be_ in our country.) For example, many reasonable people disagree on whether the second amendment's wording is intended to mean that _everyone_ should be able to bear arms, or whether it's intended to mean _only people in a militia_, and there also seems to be some disagreement on what "arms" means. I can see how a reasonable person could interpret it in either way. Such disagreement seems to have been something which the founders themselves shared. tl;dr: People disagree both on what we currently interpret words in law to mean, as well as on what the _intent_ was when it was originally written.