That would be a question between you and the seller. Why did you buy from him at that price, instead of elsewhere at a different price? Regardless, th...
P.S. A gift is not a contract. Though, in the U.S., one can have detrimental reliance on the promise of a gift. So, if you promise to give me $100k fo...
Okay, so the Dutch don't contract. Got it. Hmmm. Give me an example. "I offer something for nothing." And "I accept your offer of something for nothin...
You can enforce a promise in the U.S. too. But you need offer, acceptance and consideration. Same as in the Netherlands: https://dutch-law.com/accepta...
You are wrong, Benkei. It does not work perfectly well in the "real world" whatever that is. I can wrap my mind around the concept of good faith perfe...
You not only need offer and acceptance; you need consideration. The buyer can give money but the seller has nothing to give in return for the money. T...
Go back and read what I wrote acknowledging the BFP. That does nothing for the victim. Nothing. Justice doesn't care about a buyer's good faith. The b...
Like I said above, buyer beware. Not seller, not victim: buyer. How worse the state that backs the hand of a thief, or backs the buyer who benefits fr...
I agree. There is a presupposition among some that God is omnibenevolent, by definition. That's just human beings projecting, like they have a habit o...
I think the purpose of justice is to entice people into the system with promises of redress, and then exhaust the financial and emotional resources of...
It's called "Philosopher King." I like it. As long as I'm the King. Maybe if I go out and steal a bunch of shit, or if I have it laundered, then I'll ...
It could be that the Dutch, like Bartricks, are wrong. It sounds like the old legal principle "finders keepers, losers weepers" that we use in America...
I didn't ignore your post. I disagreed with it. You didn't like that. Just because your moral intuitions are wrong doesn't mean I ignored them when I ...
You'd be surprised at how much the law (both statutory and common) has found it's moral underpinnings in thousands of years of philosophy. You wouldn'...
:up: I think the original owner is entitled to the value of the paint, and interest, but not the value of the painting. If the painter is the thief, h...
Yeah, the law is like that. Notwithstanding the fact it is based upon that lively and exciting field of philosophy. Actually, I did. But like a loser ...
Rodney owes me the value of the slice, plus the statutory rate of interest that I could have earned had it not been stolen, had I sold it and invested...
We are directly above the center of Earth, and we are in the now. That is All. We can pretend to be otherwise, which is merely a part of All perceivin...
Sometimes I use "natural" to distinguish between us and everything but us. At the end of the day, however, it's all natural. Maybe someday nature will...
It is not unwise to start out unethical, self serving, probably cruel. It might be unethical to stay that way. To answer that, we have to get into "wh...
I'll believe it when I see it. And if it's a country club, forget that. I'd like to see the distinction lost to the history books. He needs a big (if ...
I agree. I just think the laws that make that legal were not passed by government. They were passed by people who were lobbied and bought by people wh...
When you can roll it over in a 1301 exchange, or leave it to your heirs (who didn't do shit to earn it) or take advantage of expensing every thing you...
Against a foreign state invader? Against a cartel? Against an organized crime family? What happens when the service you pay for is, or becomes one of ...
Re: billionaires and taxes. If money is not earned, through hard and/or smart work, and is simply the result of markets (i.e. on paper), and where the...
Cool. What a guy. How would you protect what little you have from the thieves (non-governmental :roll: ) that would take it from you? Just some unsoli...
I was going to ask "seriously" but then I caught myself because the word "seriously" has been so over used as to sound rhetorical, flip, facetious, or...
But you have to be not exempt in order to be liable for taxes. If you have money, you cannot only buy laws to provide exemptions, you can have rates l...
The problem is, many of the wealthiest that benefit the most don't give the state anything. They just buy the legislature and the executive players so...
:100: But boy are we good at it. We even spin it, from the insecurity it really is, to a positive called "curiosity." We aren't curious. We're just ti...
I don't know about "immoral" but: "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt Different m...
:100: :100: I think socialism is opposed to libertarianism, as are any other manifestations of the state. I know that some might like to nuance the de...
What is a better example? (And remember, you don't want to use a government example without shooting yourself in the foot.) How about no response at a...
So you are saying the bar can indeed go lower? Don't tempt Trump. It may be a pissing contest and he might feel he has to up his game. Of course they ...
I also wondered about that guy from Brazil. Was he emulating Trump, Putin, or was he just his own version of them? I think there were some others. We ...
And that is only part. You'd have to go up and cut and paste all the other times I showed the performative contradiction espousing libertarianism. NOS...
Yes, it does work like that. Look around at all you, personally, benefit from. Try being grateful for all you have, instead of taking it for granted. ...
It does so speak, when it is not taken out of the balance of the post. Libertarianism is not a sound political philosophy for the reasons stated. I ca...
I don't want to help others. I pay government to do that for me. Otherwise, I'd parse libertarians/parasites out as ineligible for help. But governmen...
That's not just socialism. That is every form of government ever. In fact, it is the big guy intimidating the little guy. Libertarians are socialists ...
Everyone is a socialist to you. Because, if anyone were a non-socialist, they'd be dead. Oh, we're there already. We've been there since the first gro...
Whenever I listened to debates or discussions about trade agreements (over the last 40 years or so) the proponent always (always) said "Well, there ar...
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