Words = Ideas... and THAT’S what really matters.
Of course, once you dummy down the education in your country... you can’t GO BACK and ask the idiots you created to respect either words OR ideas.
——Leave it to people to screw up——
actually it was the lawyers that not only proposed but implemented the screw up. the legal system was used to invalidate and sew distrust in handshake and honor deals
it was not the people but the lawyers that have created the problem of today. that problem is the tyranny of the law