Unteresting—but wills are challenged all the time. A good reason to spend it while you can, rather than trust a crooked system to spend it for you.
Oh Canada
I’m pretty sure there are scholarships dedicated to this or that minority or special class of student. Why should the judge over-rule this bequest?
And, if he does over-rule the bequest, is he ordering the bursar to apply the funds differently? If so, this is of a piece with the more general state interest in seizing my funds through taxes (both during and post-life) and distributing them to its favored classes of clients.
“I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me, and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.” (Ecclesiastes 2:18-19 ESV)
Overruled a will ??? That’s nuts.
But they’ll take his money anyway.
Is it the interest of the state that is offended or is it the will of the state that is offended? Or maybe it is the sensibilities of the judge that are offended.
After all I very much doubt that in the larger sense of things that the doctor's restrictions of the disbursement of his legacy can have much impact in the vast dealings of the nation of Canada. Other than the publishing of some self-righteous articles bemoaning the racist doctor's scholarship fund I just don't see there being any great impact on Canada by this doctor having his way in disposing of his estate after his death.
Of course leaving it only to gay black students would have been allowed, and we all know that’s not even a stretch. The left are fascists.
When I was in grad school, my program (information systems) had two scholarsips available — the Minority Student scolarship and the Martin Luther King scholarship.
I didn’t get either one.
A will cannot make something legal after death that would be illegal if done before death.
Even better, if he so wanted more Muslims in Canada that he directed it only to go to Muslim students, they would have erected a statue in his honor.
private property IS NOT PART OF PUBLIC POLICY
How is it that courts are able to define “offensive”, but not:
pornography,
when life begins,
vegetative state,
marriage,
when sex ed classes go too far,
?????
Because it's okay to impose morality, just so long as it's morality that governing officials prefer.
Blacks and queers already have lots of scholarship opportunities. Why not white straights?
The judge is an idiot...which is apparently often the case. Spend your money before you die. It is hard to plan, but you might be able to get close.
All power to the Collective, comrades!
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