I'm not "confused" about anything.
Yes, legislators pass laws, but how those laws are actually applied very much depends on the persuasive skills of lawyers.
If your hypothetical where you could use the printed law as passed by legislators essentially as a lookup table, lawyers would serve no purpose.
But somehow people spend tons of money on them nonetheless.
You are very confused. The reasonable person standard has absolutely nothing to do with your initial post where you quoted it.
>If your hypothetical where you could use the printed law as passed by legislators essentially as a lookup table, lawyers would serve no purpose.
What the fuck are you talking about? The stuff I see people here say about the law is INSANE. You don't need a lawyer in the US if you are an individual person, you can represent yourself. What the hell does any of it have to do with a lookup table? I've never seen something so deeply confused and misguided.