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If naked promises are taken seriously and suddenly recognized by courts, everything will burst in flames. This is simply absurd.
by sto_hristo 5y ago
If naked promises are taken seriously and suddenly recognized by courts, everything will burst in flames. This is simply absurd.
- Jtsummers 5y agoI didn't say naked promises, where I've seen this have a real world consequence was when the speaker seemed to have authority they did not, or made a statement that conveyed an intent they did not mean. Like "We're ready to start on the project" being taken by a contractor to mean, "Get dev work started today" and then billing the work when the speaker wasn't actually authorizing the start at that time. It's about whether there's a potential good faith misunderstanding of the statement. The contractor didn't take the statement and run with it to bill hours they shouldn't have billed, they legitimately took the statement to be the go ahead to get started and billed accordingly.
- sto_hristo 5y agoBut that doesn't make for a good contractor now, does it? If they're so naive to run after every stick thrown at them and lose on that, no real court should help them. That is the whole reason for the "invention" of contracts, where everything is finalized, official, set in stone, and unbreakable. Problem with Scarlet is that in no way she could have foreseen 2020 and didn't think any of it. Now that stuff happened, she's just angry at her misfortune and is reaching for straws. It's unfortunate.