Thursday, October 02, 2014

The Document


They wrote a very clever draft and thought that others would not notice the provision which would permit them to get what they'd been wanting for years but their focus on that underlying purpose caused them to overlook that they'd also opened the door to an unspoken goal of the other side and that goal, if achieved, would make the drafters' clever move not so clever at all.

If something has no downside, it is time to look more closely.

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