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zukiphile · December 6, 2012, 03:46 PM

At a practical level, a defamation suit is a terrible remedy.

If I say "JimDandy is a stinker!", and you sue me over it, then we get to have a big public trial in which a central question is "Is JimDandy a stinker?". Someone probably writes an article about how interesting my position on JimDandy is, and what else I think. I get free advertising. I get to put on witnesses who list why you are a stinker, and you get to argue that you are not a stinker.

When it is all over, when people hear your name, they think "stinker".

December 6, 2012, 03:46 PM	#10
zukiphile Senior Member Join Date: December 13, 2005 Posts: 4,454	At a practical level, a defamation suit is a terrible remedy. If I say "JimDandy is a stinker!", and you sue me over it, then we get to have a big public trial in which a central question is "Is JimDandy a stinker?". Someone probably writes an article about how interesting my position on JimDandy is, and what else I think. I get free advertising. I get to put on witnesses who list why you are a stinker, and you get to argue that you are not a stinker. When it is all over, when people hear your name, they think "stinker". __________________ http://www.npboards.com/index.php Last edited by zukiphile; December 7, 2012 at 08:10 AM.