Not sure why you're being downvoted because you're exactly right. The crypto-anarchists love to say "the code is the law", but the reality is that losing your retirement savings because somebody forgot to mark a method private is a pretty shitty outcome.
For all its warts, a legal system backed by a jury of your peers is still the best way of sorting out the actual intent of a contract when the shit hits the fan.
Ignoring the fact that he was responding to a post that was sarcasm, if we really stop to think about it, how many people are judged by their peers and how many are judged by people who are the furthest from it?
Sarcastic or not, "contract by code" and "lawyers are obsolete" are, in reality, major selling points used by Ethereum evangelists. The OP's post gives an opportunity to discuss this.
I did not assign any assertion or position to the OP, only followed up on his thread about the potential ramifications that ETH backers seriously advocate.
For all its warts, a legal system backed by a jury of your peers is still the best way of sorting out the actual intent of a contract when the shit hits the fan.