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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (68383)	11/26/2002 12:24:28 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I was not refering to cyber relationships in my example. Okay. That wasn't clear to me, since the only way I know any of the people here is as a cyber relationship. However, if someone is using the internet to deceive trusting individuals, the deceiver is responsible for the consequences. The formula does not change. Only, I think, where there is a reasonable basis for the trustee to establish trust. If, for example, I go to a used car lot and the salesman says "trust me, this car is a cream puff" and I buy it without any inspection or warranty or even opening the hood, just trusting him, and as I drive off the lot the axle falls off, I have not acted reasonably and, while he is at fault for lying to me, I am also at fault for trusting inappropriately. I don't think anybody has any right or reason to trust anybody here until they have clearly established a right to be trusted, and even then, care is the operative stance to take.