> In addition most of these people never communicated and there is a ton of legacy functionally that is still in there that needs to be gotten rid of, but nobod

> In addition most of these people never communicated and there is a ton of legacy functionally that is still in there that needs to be gotten rid of, but nobody wants to go through the trouble of submitting a change request to get the old cruft out. To me, this makes the law more apt to an analogy of genetics than of software. Laws are the genes of society. They're expressed differently under different circumstances, they're prone to degradation by way of malnutrition, and can create confusing and contradictory messaging pathways.. and when removed from the mechanism of apoptosis, it becomes indistinguishable from a cancer.