Originally Posted by
PhoenixPhyre
One small challenge--there is interpretation involved with every rule everywhere. Even, and especially in the law. That's why there are things like judicial canons of construction, why courts disagree about what the law means and how it applies, why lawyers get paid a lot, etc. RAW doesn't really exist (at least the way rules lawyers think) because there is no meaning without interpretation and without context. Words don't have independent meanings--they only have context-dependent meaning.