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Re: Customs question...
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Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:30:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
> > Bottom line is that *you* don't get to define merchandise, the people who
> > wrote the form (and made the law) do. Doesn't matter what you think.
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> Doesn't matter what I think?
Nope. It doesn't. At least, not in a legal sense Legally, you don't have a say.
*Especially* if it's in another country :) Does it matter what you think in
terms of how moral you are? Sure. How honest you are? Sure.
> If the duty payment that is at stake is that
> of another country, as it is for all of us in the states, then I don't even
> care to think about it overmuch. Some other country's laws is surely
> someone else's problem.
Ah-- debatably immoral :) If all other countries in the world refuse to grant
patent rights to a particular product, someone else's problem? If I kill your
family then retreat to another country who won't hold me accountable, is that
your problem, end of story? Or should I consider those who I might hurt?
Of course this really is pushing it. It's such a little thing that it's nearly
inconsequencial. But the principle says that it's an immoral act, even if only
very minisculy so.
> If I can help a lego pal out by labelling the
> package "gift" -- I mean, really, who cares? Why are some of you so
> vehemently opposed to such a teeny, tiny white lie? Get over yourselves...
I guess I didn't see anyone who was vehemently opposed to it... to whom were
you referring? From my vantage point, it's immoral, but only very slightly. If
you want to mark it as a gift, go for it. If you don't have a problem with it,
fine. But if *I* did it, I'd have a problem with me. A big problem? Nah. But a
little one.
DaveE
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| (...) Or the principle says that it's a particularly moral act because you're standing up, willing to deny funding (in a small way) to a corrupt bureaucracy. If you think that's so. Those of us who think that governance is bad have it particularly (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Yeah, its gets attenuated pretty fast. In the U.S. such a thing has it's origins in congressionally generated legislations, is duplicated by administrative law (sometimes with errors, additions, and omissions), and implemented by people that (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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