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by wmidwestranger
923 days ago
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Don't know why you're being downvoted, the issue isn't the contractual obligation but the method of enforcement. If I sign a contract saying I'll take an apple cider enema and I don't, that doesn't automatically mean I've given permission to have one administered! That might mean I get kicked out of the contract but it doesn't mean that I can be forced to abide by the contract. |
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Separately, although I am not a lawyer, I have decades of business experience which often involved working closely with lawyers and my circle of friends happens to include several attorneys, prosecutors and judges, so I'd say I have an unusually broad understanding of legal matters for a non-lawyer (especially contract, IP and business law). I also just find legal stuff interesting to learn about and I'm one of those oddballs who looks forward to June because I find well-written SCOTUS rulings (and dissents!) fun to read.
Yet, I'm still surprised at the lack of even high-school civics-level knowledge of basic legal principles I come across in otherwise intelligent, well-educated professionals including doctors, MBAs, engineers, etc. It's kind of sad because the latent engineer in me finds the system architecture of the U.S. legal framework to be fascinating. Yes, it's imperfect in many ways, yet it's still a brilliant, iterative, collection of attempts to solve a 'wicked' bundle of thorny problems through successive approximation. Despite its flaws it still ends up eventually getting things pretty close to as "right" as they probably can be with remarkable frequency.