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My point is that the comment should be deleted altogether as it's more of a personal rant than a serious answer.

You'll fit in extremely well as a moderator on today's StackExchange.

I'm not saying that these should be the rules.

Only that so long as they be the rules, they should be consistently enforced.

To be fair, "law doesn't work backwards" is an estabilished legal principle.