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by HunterWare 2793 days ago
He's not saying it's impossible. He's saying the number of people doing it is so small as to be irrelevant to general arguments. While a much larger percentage (relatively) of people may have used this path ("reading into the law") a hundred years ago, it has largely faded from relevance in modern times.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_law