One of the things I say over (and over) again is "well that depends by what you mean by..." - only in recent years do I realise what an analytical thing that is to say.

For about the past 100 years, many western philosophers have held that most of our philosophical problems (and many of our political and practical ones) come from being inexact with our words and what we mean by them. I think many of the discussions I've seen here about 6th-day voting fall into this trap by conflating two senses in which we say someone 'shouldn't' do something: what is ethical, and what the code allows. I reckon this is the equivalent of conflating the laws of physics and the laws of the land.