[president_zippy]

It's Chevron DEFERENCE; not DEFENSE.

Everyone who replied completely missed my point, despite how simply and clearly I worded it. You're doing a masterful job illustrating it.

Everyone around here thinks that just because you don't need a college degree to become a software engineer or found an eventual multibillion dollar software company, that the same must generalize to every other profession, including biotech, law, and even medicine. Every technocrat is under the same delusion as Bill Gates that succeeding in their software qualifies them to do anything, despite the face that most people around here cannot even change their own spark plug or replace a flat tire.

I have an opinion on Chevron deference: letting party in a lawsuit interpret the laws and regulations concerning their own case is asinine. However, I don't pretend to know whether or not it can or should hold up in court based on stare decisis or any particular legal tradition.

More importantly, I don't operate under some delusion that other people would benefit from hearing my opinion on matters outside my own education or vocation.

"A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards." -Proverbs 29:11