Re: [s-b] consultation 30 (assigned to Peter)

["Peter Cooper Jr." <pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Geoffrey Spear" <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I submit the following as a Consultation:
>
> {{
> True or False: a piece of paper can consent to X if a human being has
> written on the piece of paper "I consent to X".
> }}
>
> Argument: The Thompson-Gale Law Encylcopedia says "Consent is an act
> of reason and deliberation. A person who possesses and exercises
> sufficient mental capacity to make an intelligent decision
> demonstrates consent by performing an act recommended by another.
> Consent assumes a physical power to act and a reflective, determined,
> and unencumbered exertion of these powers."  A sheet of paper is
> capable of neither reason nor deliberation, and as such can consent to
> nothing.
>
> This is Consultation 30.  I assign it to Peter.

I rule FALSE.

Reasoning:
Basically, what the Supplicant's argument says. I have seen no
evidence that a piece of paper can consent to anything.

-- 
Peter C.
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