Today's topic: lawyers and legal language. Lately I've had some stress over a certain contract for a certain event and today I reached the boiling point. The whole issue is that writing a contract invites each party to the contract to be punitive. Lost is the good faith effort - the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive - upon which we'd prefer to operate; because a contract sets to writing what we cannot do, our innately human response is to charge back with what we can do. Without a bitter and binding contract, I think two parties can work towards middle ground. With said contract the same two parties become vengeful and eager to recover perceived damages. The one in question here explicitly states that it does not create a partnership, when in point of fact that is exactly what everyone desires. It is a single document simultaneously creating and destroying a relationship between two reasonable parties.

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