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Re: Customs question...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 18 Nov 2001 20:04:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> > > Jason, you may be "honesty impaired" -- the condition of engaging in
> > > unseemly contortions just to be able to claim you were doing the "right
> > > thing."
> >
> > Is that how you define "honesty"? Or is that how you define "moral"? Is
> > honesty necessarily moral? If you ask me, if you're honest with respect to
> > putting the little "gift" mark on a package, then you *DON'T* mark it as a
> > gift no matter *WHAT* you think of the moral implications of the law that
> > you're breaking. If you're "honest", you tell the truth. And the truth is
> > that it's not a gift.
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> But the act of marking it as a gift might be a gift. So what then?
Well, considering that the "gift" denotes the contents of the package (or so
I would assume the "law" dictates), then no, not really...
DaveE
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| (...) But if I sell you an old 3055 (say) for $3 & postage is "Merchandise" more appropriate than "gift"? Merchandise is more for describing buying from a commercial organisation. If anyone is selling several thousand dollars worth pa then perhaps (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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