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Heh, just experienced this myself. Spirit of a contract is important, and not really something that can be codified.


It depends on the contract.

Tbh, I would prefer if things government related were set in stone. No ambiguity, send the money, be done.

The private sector can work with customers and are reliant on customers for business. This makes it so compromise and being reasonable is incentivized by additional profit.


“Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.”

— Thomas Aquinas


I have this vague feeling that perfect contracts or laws would somehow contradict Gödel's incompleteness theorems.




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