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07-13-2007, 07:20 PM | #1 |
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Tex, the UPS guy just delilvers the packages. But surely he is an agent.
If you don't want millions of agents running around, then get rid of HT and VT (in our dreams, there are millions doing this). |
07-13-2007, 07:31 PM | #2 | |
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However, being a limited scope agent shouldn't hold the principle liable for every outrageous action of the agent. The principle needs to have some reasonable knowledge of the agent's propensities, and thereafter fail to act. What happened from time to time in the eighties and even early nineties, somebody would complain to a local bishop about somebody "molesting" another member. Bishops at that time were not trained in how to handle it; they are much better trained. Should they have been? I find it incredulous that they should have been, but the legal cases guess otherwise. So in many cases in days gone by, the bishops failed to act and apparently the victim suffered horribly because the bishop thought the perp was either not guilty or capable of repenting of the action. That's what's weird about these cases. And in Oregon, one can look back to a great time period in the past.
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07-13-2007, 07:40 PM | #3 | |
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We're getting to a point in our society where no one can do anything nice for anyone for fear of a lawsuit. Everyone is carrying silly liabilities around with them such that if they breath wrong, they're gonna owe somebody millions. I remember someone commenting a while back about being unwilling to help lift a kid in a public restroom up to the sink (to wash his hands) for fear of some accusation of sexual harassment. When I go visit someone in their home because the EQ president (or bishop) has asked me too, or because I feel a spiritual obligation as a MP holder, I am not acting in any official capacity for the church. I'm just being a nice guy. The law may not see it that way, but it ought to. There is no way, even if there weren't all the other extenuating factors (what we're calling "scope"), that the church should be held liable for this on the basis of "agency." |
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