That isn’t what this is saying at all. It was a shitty article based on a shitty youtube video from an attorney who has everything to gain if the law is read to force defendants to always pick up his tab.

That isn’t how the law worked. If it worked like you and the author (and the plaintiff attorney quoted) are proposing, every time a shop fucks up, it would be on the hook for actual damages as well as legal fees.

You are misapplying the term “unfair”. Am example of that would be charging customers for synthetic Mobil 1 oil then dumping in generic conventional oil out of a Mobil 1 tank.

Unfair in a legal sense is one side taking advantage of an informational asymetry. There are plenty of ways for mechanics to do this. Maybe using conventional oil but charging for synthetic anyway or intentionally misdiagnosing something as severe and then charging a bunch for an easy fix. The statute exists to…

You have a fair point, but I think that the magnitude of the blowback vs. LeBron was unpredictable.

1480 BTW, but I’m old so that’s better than yours. Zach Morris only got a 1501 on my version. Coming from one of the shittiest public schools in one of the shittiest school districts in California, with no rich white boy test prep and took the test once the morning after a football game barely able to limp into the…

God dammit. If you want to measure internet penis sizes we can do that. What do you want to use, SAT scores? LSAT scores? Willingness to claim “logical fallacy” and hide behind that rather than let a point sink in? I’ll bet I can win two out of three.

I have a sticker that says fascist and has a big X that I put on my MacBook right where the apple logo goes, and I tweet all sorts of support for the Chinese people, I've been doing that since before it was even cool, like back when all of the posers were tweeting about the woman cop who killed that guy for no reason.…

Thank you, I agree 100%. 

This really feels like one of those things where someone’s wife tells him “it’s not the cheating that hurt, it’s the fact that you LIED about it.”

I think he’d be getting killed for “no comment”. See Steve Kerr: https://deadspin.com/steve-kerr-reminds-us-who-the-nbas-unifying-powers-real-1838981265

I have a hypothetical for you. I don’t know what you do, but let’s assume you’re an attorney at the largest law firm in your state.

Maybe we can make this happen someday.

Fair enough- you’re in China and have a much better understanding of the situation locally than I do.

I’d like to try to make my point again, but first concede where I was wrong the first time. I do agree that what LeBron said was worse than saying nothing. I’ve been following this since Steve Kerr was in the news for saying nothing, and I was assuming that a lot of the hate that Kerr got would eventually stick to…

I’m sorry I can’t figure out how to quote, but maybe you are right that the NBA should just remove itself from China altogether somehow.

Please answer my question. What should LeBron have done, and what would the results have been? Show me the dominoes that lead to anything besides the NBA being blocked in China.

If you think that keeping his mouth shut would have been fine, you’ve obviously never been married. This is a classic “i don’t mind the cheating, but the lying really hurt” move by everybody.

Noted. 

I should have been more clear. LeBron does have the power to lock in a war between the NBA and China. If he says “fuck them”, or some derivative of that, which is what it seems like this site wants, then they will demand that Silver cast LeBron out of the league, which he won’t do. Then China will say “fuck you” and…