I am a liberal person opposed to all unnecessary state limitation of individual liberties. Hermeneutics between consenting adults should not, in my view, be the object of any statutory restrictions. I know, only too well, what it would entail. Hermeneutic speakeasies would spring up all over the place, smuggled Thick Descriptions would be brought in by … the Mafia, … Addicts would be subject to blackmail. Consumption of deep meanings … would in no way diminsh, but the criminal world would benefit, and the whole fabric of civil society would be put under severe strain. Never! -Ernest Gellner-