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“Shall” and “may” are used a lot, especially in gun law.
For instance there are counties that have concealed carry permits written as “may issue…” and the sherif decides if a ccp will get issued, but others are written as “shall issue…” and the sheriff is forced to issue the ccp unless they can defend a valid reason against doing so.
What I’m getting at is the “may vs shall” argument has a lot of previous legal definitions.
This is how all my work documentation is. There are "shoulds" and "shalls" in our processes. If you don't do a "should," you just need to have a good reason why not. If you don't do a "shall," you need a blessing from the person who owns the process, and someone else needs to agree that they accept all risk associated with not doing it, and they literally have to put their name next to it. It's a big deal, as it should be, because most of those "shalls" are there for safety
That's why Gandalf didn't say "may not" to the Balrog.
And ‘You cannot pass!’ in the book.
There were books? Neat.
@AmidFuror @MicroWave @jordanlund @Brkdncr yeah after the movies did so well they made books out of em
Yeah I heard JK Rowling helped author them.