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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 3225918" data-attributes="member: 3929">This is the FAQ's virtue, I agree. It is clear. Yes. No. It is simple. It does not provide us with citations or explanations terribly thorough.And you cling to this as if this quality is always in demand: it is not. It is unambiguous, but it is not transparent. It is simple, but it is not rigorous. It is easy to navigate, but does nothing to fix the errors and contradictions within.When the circumstances call for an argument that may be examined, the FAQ is useless.When the circumstances call for disputants to support their arguments with the text of the rules, upon which the FAQ is supposed to be based, the FAQ is useless.When the circumstances warrant an examination of what the rules say as they are written, the FAQ is useless.Most certainly, when time is in abundance and unanimity is unnecessary, the main virtue of the FAQ counts for nothing.Though these message boards and most of the rules threads possess those qualities in abundance, you yet praise the FAQ for "clarity" and "simplicity"? For its "authority"? Clarity and simplicity mean nothing when coupled with opaqueness and error; authority means nothing when each DM is their own authority.If that authority says the law is what it isn't, then it is bound not to remain an authority for long. It will either be overthrown or become a tyrant, and the law will mean nothing. It is only so long as the authority remains faithful to the law that it retains its right to arbitrate it.</blockquote>

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