On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, comex wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Geoffrey Spear <[email protected]> wrote: >> It seems incredibly unlikely that when entering into a contract with >> someone who's breached as many contracts as ehird has ais523 >> reasonably expected em to abide by the terms of the contract. Affairs >> proceded exactly as should be expected by any reasonable observer of >> the game. >> >> I enter the null judgement. > > Affairs proceeded as envisioned by any reasonable observer of the > game, quite possibly, but not as envisioned by the contract. Which I > suspect was the point: ehird might be expected to violate the > contract, but only if e's willing to face a hostile equation.
Indeed. It could be said that the purpose of *any* contract is to enforce trust in cases where people aren't inherently trustworthy.
