Sometimes it takes someone that has no stake involved in a subject to see more. Wistful thinking makes a person partially blind to the details. I had an argument about 15 years ago with my village board. I put up a basketball pole just off the street. I had looked up the ordinances and was sure I had the perfect argument, the Village Attorney, on the other hand didn’t agree and threatened jail if I continued to be in non-compliance. I looked up the ordinances again. I was just to optimistic the first time I read it and interpreted it much more loosely than it was intended. Lawyers love their word games.
I took the pole down that day. It wasn’t worth going to jail for.