A couple of years ago I was in a lawsuit with a particularly screwed up individu

A couple of years ago I was in a lawsuit with a particularly screwed up individual named Muti (who some of us know) who lied to me and everyone else in a venture, about the source of money he committed to contribute. When he fell thru, and he was exposed. And got a note from him. He signed it. A friend witnessed it. I shut down the venture, and paid everyone myself out of my pocket. At the time I was in the middle of divorce and had just finished my second round of cancer and therapy. So this particular douche bag tries every scumbag maneuver in the book, and because judges are stupid, pulled up an arcane bit of logic and misapplied it. It was so bizarre that I was stunned a judge could be that stupid. The fact is, he was just fucking lazy and wanted to get on to the next piece of paper. So we went to arbitration and what they didn’t get, was that I was willing to lose it all on the chance that I would win in court. Immoral people just don’t get it. They think you’re greedy. But it’s not the money. I’d already planned to give it to my ex-wife. But if I won, Id force the guy out of his house cause he was out of cash. Now, I really don’t want to do that either. But if he didn’t settle for a reasonable amount, then I’ll just go to court and roll the dice. Since I don’t get the money either way, it’s just a function of whether it’s moral or not.

Americans have removed the legal system from most of their lives (which is one of the reasons that we are overpopulated with lawyers) and the courts have built up a pretty good body of law to encourage that. But it’s the very opposite of the common law. It’s a mess. And it’s incomprehensible to ordinary people. And it’s just plain immoral.