For me scoring is just a decent way of getting an image in my head of how big the deer was. You can have an 8 pt with pts 2-3" and a 7" spread, and one with tines 10" and a 18 spread. Telling the score of the buck is an easier way of describing its size.

If someone gets thier happiness taken away when they hear what thier deer scored, its thier own fault, not the hunting community's fault.