any time someone responds to a rule with "don't worry, that's never enforced," push back! if you don't get rid of it, it may bite you someday

real world example: NY still has laws forbidding plural marriage on the books. Nobody's enforced them for years, but I'm still _very_ careful about how I describe my relationships, because a queer trans woman who might want to adopt someday is exactly who they'd be used against

$ python -m this | sed -n '4p'
Explicit is better than implicit.

applies to human societies too