PAA: Agree with your points (though quoting Umbridge isn’t the way to gain sympathy to your argument… 🙂 ).
Don’t worry – I wasn’t trying to gain sympathy; it just happens to be that she articulated the idea very well. Maybe next time I’ll follow the Rambam’s lead (from his introduction to Shemoneh Perakim):
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