I use a Chromebook at times. I wanted to play some music, so I loaded it on a USB and plugged it in. There is no music player on a chromebook (just Google Play that I refuse to touch). So I use VLC, a handy media player. But it is not allowed to play music from a USB.
No – music need to be loaded off the USB on to the computer. Easy you would think, so I copy it on to my Google drive (the cloud linked to the chromebook) and tick “Make available offline”. That means it is sitting on my chromebook – in the memory. But that isn’t internal memory according to chrome – no indeed. VLC can see it, but is not allowed to play it. No I should have copied it to internal memory instead of offline memory. Now in reality these could be exactly the same place, they are just called different names. But rules are rules.
Confused? I was.
I was reading about the postal vote issue in New York. People were given a pre-paid envelope for returning their votes. But the post office doesn’t frank (date stamp) pre-paid envelopes. And a check is made on returned votes – they must have a date stamp on the envelope. So the votes were discounted.
I’m sure the idea of trial by our peers was intended to add a common sense interpretation of laws.
I remember the story of Jesus “harvesting” on a Sabbath. He seemed to make it clear that there needs to be a human interpretation of laws. I also remember him summarising the 10 commandments into the essential (do this and you will do them all).
There are a lot of people annoyed at all the rules at the moment, who can you see, where should you wear a mask. But really, if you simplify it and add interpretation by peers than all you need to do is say “Do what you can to avoid spreading the virus”. If you do that then you will meet all the requirements.
Forget what you are allowed to do, what you are not allowed to do – are you doing what you can?