Garm
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There's a right way to wire a house for safety. There isn't a right way to think about the Iliad.
Eh... When I was in school the National Electric Code the council was debating on whether the grounding prong on outlets should face "up" or face "down". The debate being on whether or not it was better for the object to be grounded before being electrified or being electrified before being grounded.
Edit: specifically if an object was sliding down the front of the outlet.
So if you just had an image of a bunch of theologists debating some obscure religious point... Yeah.
True, but it's valuable to know what others have thought in the past. That's why the Western canon isn't dispensable. There are some thorough autodidacts out there, but most people need a guide.
After all, an apprentice could just read manuals and codes books, right? If there's just one right way to wire a house it shouldn't be too difficult to specify it in writing.
The code book is 800 pages and gets updated every 3 years. So something done "by the book" would be code compliant one year and not compliant the next.
Then it you get city codes who just decided that "1975 was a good year for codes" and left it at that.