Exactly. Just because it might be seen that way in a court of law, that hardly means the rules of the game are going to account for it. Especially when that would lead to a far more positive outcome for us all than the Producers could possibly have intended...

And that's all that matters. What they intended. Not what we might make of it.

There's nothing the matter with optimism, so long as it doesn't become self-delusion. If we're letting it blind us to the reality of the situation - I can't still call that a good thing.