“Should” is an amazingly dangerous word (in the usage often embraced in the US, at least). I find that asking why something “should” be XYZ is much more enligh

“Should” is an amazingly dangerous word (in the usage often embraced in the US, at least). I find that asking why something “should” be XYZ is much more enlightening, both for the writer and the reader, in terms of exposing structural problems that make it so. “People seldom do what they know to be right. They do what is convenient, then repent” —attributed to bob dylan (Corollary: make the “right” thing the least inconvenient thing to do, and the odds of people doing it will rise appreciably.)