Oh yes you are! Whether you like it or not. Everyone is. Whether they like it or not. The error is thinking you/they are not. If you were not, then yo...
For the life of me, if you aren't part of the collective and don't want to be, what the hell are you doing here? At the very least, take up arms and f...
No, they are stealing your children's un-earned inheritance to clean up the boondoggles we made. As it should be. My children are part of the collecti...
:up: I think consideration and choice themselves may be a leisure time activity. The law often makes room for "heat of the moment" because it knows th...
Yes, this was part of my forte back in the day. When I first started out, I was naïve enough to think that "cradle to grave" for hazardous waste actua...
This human/animal, moral/amoral discussion has me wondering: What is stronger evidence of being a moral agent: Being able to sit around and talk about...
I know, right? I was thinking more from a sociological/morality standpoint but the thread title I used was not very helpful. However, I've noticed the...
That's a good question too. I think the good definitely outweighs the bad, but if I stop to think about it when good is happening, then I lose it. To ...
I've never viewed morality as pain/suffering. It might be considering pain suffering, before or after pain/suffering. But pain/suffering are themselve...
Some Marine wrote an anonymous note on bulletin board in Khe Sanh, Vietnam. It said "For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the protected will ...
Living in the now is beyond both logic and morality. Logic and morality are distractions; leisure time activities. They get to sit around before and a...
In my personal opinion (as influenced by personal experience and reading some authors), attraction to action is the result of idle hands. If we have l...
Well I haven't. And I've asked. If you read the thread, you'll also find I've not been arguing Trump. Further, while I haven't been arguing Biden eith...
I don't approve of Street. I don't think I have been. Nope. When Michelle Obama says to go high when they go low, I disagree. I go right down there wi...
I'm thinking he thinks: 1. No progress has ever been made; or 2. Any progress made occurred as the result of magic; or 3. Any progress made occurred a...
There is a big difference between the way thing are and the way they are supposed to be (as laid out by our organic documents). At the end of the day,...
In my personal opinion, I never want to live in a world where the lion lays down with the lamb. It's not that I like pain and suffering, but I like li...
There are always proxies. It is crucial to have a professional cadre of Special Operations personnel to make resistance effective; through preparation...
:up: Could very well be. The only contract issues I dealt with involving .gov were USFS "get out the cut" and BLM grazing allotment stuff, and I wasn'...
I'm sure you parsed this hair, but for anyone who didn't, the agreement includes offer, acceptance, consideration. The obligation referred to is that ...
That kind of shell game can occur with straight up corps, too (C and S, etc.). From the grantor's perspective, though, it is or can be a write off. It...
No, they are not. States can create contracts, but so can private parties: "An agreement between private parties creating mutual obligations . . ." id...
It's been over thirty years since school and over twenty since practice, but nothing in that paragraph in any way discounts what I argued. All of it r...
Emphasis added. Like I referred to above in reference to the state: it can do whatever it wants. A state can exercise eminent domain and can even unil...
Even God can make mistakes. :grin: My view of God is All, so that would account for all that we can fathom, and more, and less, and not. Anyway, I agr...
:100: I think you nailed it with the civil rights analogy. "Okay all you folks, head on home, now. Nothing to see here." I think some want MLK's arc t...
That is how I perceived the OP. Who knew it would lead where it went? (Rhetorical question.) I think the social good comes from the state mandating th...
I agree. Don't be distracted by my extrapolation. I said: I think Christopher Stone likened it to an ontological problem where, at the end of the day,...
Like gift, it was used as a stand-in for all the rest. Meaning, all the rest was not illustrative on the argument about offer-acceptance-consideration...
Emphasis added. And there you have it. I'd ask you to explain that to Benkei but he is done. You just made my point. I don't need the nudge. Benkei do...
:100: Voting is like a needle: It's either scary or it's inconvenient. Some people try to make it scarier and less convenient. Others try to make it l...
But if there is no unilateral amendment, then there IS consideration. DOH! It takes at least two to agree, two to contract. Consideration is what they...
For the umpteenth time, you failed to provide an example. That is because you don't know what you are talking about. If you disagree, then all you hav...
Cops don't get to avail themselves of the fruit of a poisonous tree. Neither do criminals or tortfeasors. There is a long litany of moral, ethical, ph...
Generally it has to do with detrimental reliance. If the recipient reasonably relied upon the pledge to his/her/its detriment, then yes, they can sue ...
Help this Anglo-Saxon dummy from America: If you offer to give me a gift and I agree to accept it, then what contract is there to enforce? Unless and ...
No, if it is refused, there is no contract, by definition. If it is accepted without consideration, it is a gift. There is no contract. And you must h...
I'm thinking it might be confirmation bias. If you are standing on the bones of victims, one might contort morality to justify it, and call that moral...
Like I said, it's not a U.S. invention. It's been around since Christ was a Corporal, and long before that. The essence of contract is that you don't ...
I agree. Every animal and natural process is "special" in their own way. But "special" has a higher/better/superior ring to it. At least in my mind. T...
I would like them to stop using the word "special." I think "different" would be less value-loaded. Indeed. They are conservatives that way. And I am ...
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