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Re: EconMinutae 101 (was: Customs question...)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 20 Nov 2001 02:28:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> > If my seven year old son trades his PBJ at the lunch table in school for the
> > next kid's swiss on rye, was it merchandise? If not, is it because of your
> > profit clause above, or because it wasn't a cash transaction? He thought
> > it was a profitable transaction. And Wwat if I'm trading LEGO for LEGO?
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> I think we're getting way off here-- the question is "Is it honest to mark
> packages as 'gift'?" Is the PBJ merchandise? Eh, I dunno. I'd hesitate to
> call it such. But I certainly wouldn't call it a gift. If you're trading
> Lego for Lego? Eh, still fuzzy on whether it's merchandise (in my book). But
> I definitely wouldn't mark it as a "gift" unless I thought I wasn't getting
> something in return. Or, that is to say, I would call me marking it as a
> gift dishonest.
Whereas I would call it a lie but not necessarily dishonest.
I go back to my example I gave earlier. Are inflatable tanks lies? Yes. Are
they morally wrong? Not necessarily.
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 | | Re: EconMinutae 101 (was: Customs question...)
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| (...) I think we're getting way off here-- the question is "Is it honest to mark packages as 'gift'?" Is the PBJ merchandise? Eh, I dunno. I'd hesitate to call it such. But I certainly wouldn't call it a gift. If you're trading Lego for Lego? Eh, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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