| (It's worth noting this about the author's personality: "... as an antisocial autistic person, I am afraid that I can't bring myself to understand the importance for such things ..." - so the author is antisocial and autistic. Worth knowing when reading my thoughts, below.) Writing and speaking have their places. It depends on context and the situation, really. If I'm in a room with someone, and I say, "I dislike the work you've done", but it's delivered with a sarcastic tone, with a smile on my face, and a flowery movement of the arm to denote that I was joking, ideally the whole statement will be taken as a joke. However... If I'm in a room with someone, and I email them to say, "I dislike the work you've done", then everything else mentioned above is lost. How is this perceived by the other person? I, as the author of the statement, have to do extra work to portray meaning which can _still_ get lost: "I dislike the work you've done! ... lol j/k ;-)" That's not superior in this simple example, so I doubt it's going to be superior in more complex examples. So I would ask the author this: why do we attend courts to solve complex legal matters? Why not do it entirely in writing? Would that not allow the highly educated, skilled labour that supports the legal system to "scale" better? Could a judge now not handle many cases at once versus having their time pinned to a physical location in which one case can be heard at a time? |