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To: Henrietta
"Grow up and get to work. The rest of us are tired of hearing about your "feelings," none of which are backed up by reason and objective facts. You are a perfect example of the type of economic illiteracy that is so prevalent in our society today, and you a law school graduate! Incredible."

Ouch! That really hurt! But, I am going to ignore my hurt feelings and respond thusly: First, as an attorney, you know that most law is not "facts." It is philosophy and concepts. Concepts like equity and fairness. Concepts like responsibility. Just to give you one example, take minwages. Do you not realize that these were present in the Code of Hammurabi? (and before him, actually.) So were business regulations. See what happened to naughty beer-maids who watered down their beer or shortchanged the serving.

Check out your Blackstone. I recall reading in there that a man could be more or less forced to work a job that paid reasonable wages, but not one that paid an unfair wage. Head on back to Greece and check out a fella named Solon. Look for something called "The Great Shaking Out."

Some of these wierd leftish things I support are actually nothing but the necessary underpinnings of a fair and equitable society.

When you are thru with the history lesson, head on over to your old Contracts textbook. Read some of that stuff dealing with K's of Adhesion, Durees, Unconscionabilty. Then come back to this thread and tell me that voluntary=fair.

I'll write more later. Busy right now trying to get a corporate client out of a bind...parsy.

79 posted on 01/23/2002 12:01:40 PM PST by parsifal
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To: parsifal
No one is this country is "forced" to pay anyone anything (unless you want to count fines levied by the government.) You cannot force someone to work for what the employee believes in an unjust wage; if they think it's unjust, they go work somewhere else, or start their own businesses. Indeed, no one is forced to work at all; welfare is an all-too-easy option; the legions of welfare moms are a testament to that. Duress and unconscionablity have nothing whatever to do with this discussion.
84 posted on 01/23/2002 1:27:43 PM PST by Henrietta
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