You should be a politician because that is some pretty serious spin.:grin:
I was not aware if there is nothing tangible after committing a crime then I have not committed a crime. I am pretty sure 'attempted' robbery is a crime even when nothing has happened.
No spin, just that common sense you keep eluding to.
A traffic cop sits eating his donut and coffee and witnesses someone roll through a stop sign. Nothing happened as a result of that incident, the car drives on and the cop decides not to pursue the violator. It now becomes history and will never result in a problem since we can't go back in time yet.
An electrical code violation has an actual physical existence and has the potential of burning down a house in the future.
Still, there is no reason whatsoever that an EC who is being paid to perform a service that is required to be NEC compliant should be anything but compliant. There are ways to get some of these codes changed if you don't agree with them.
Has any of the code panels accepted a change yet that has verbage in it such as "common sense"?
Common sense tells me ECs want inspectors to use common sense on non-compliant installations when it benefits the EC.