Why do people feel they do not have to honor a contract?

[RB TexLa]

This really is just tiresome. What kind of a human being signs contracts and then later just thinks oh I don't want to do what or as I agreed to do?

This is just one of the latest examples. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18958324/


edited to add: I am talking about legitimate contracts. Not a wronged person wanting someone else to honer their end of a contract or wanted out of one because the other party didn't honor their end.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. One reason is the breaching party believes the other contract party

will find it less expensive to walk away rather than incur the time and expenses of litigation.

The concept of honor was no longer a recognized variable as soon as parties to a contract put down their dueling pistols and started going to court.

[fasttense]

2. Oh come on, don't you get it?

Laws, rules and contracts were made to be broken. It starts at the top where a bunch of greedy white men run our government by ignoring the constitution they swear, in front of God and country, to uphold. Then it just trickles down. The middle class and mildly rich may not get any of the tons of money the bushes have shoveled over to the super rich and arrogantly powerful, but they do get to act out those same behaviors. No, money doesn't trickle down but attitudes towards laws, rules and contracts certainly do. If breaking the law and the Constitution is good enough for America's top one percenters, it's good enough for the rest of us peasants.

[bobthedrummer]

3. If a party has been harmed, if the goods/services are not ethically delivered

by qualifed parties and a whole lot of other reasons, like if the contract is part of a criminal conspiracy-but none of that matters to CORPORATE WHORES.

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. Signing statements, perhaps?

Why should people honor contracts when they can follow the example set by Fearless Leader?

[Warpy]

5. Well, there are a couple of breaches here.

One was the breach of the clinic's policy to have contingency plans available in case of divorce. The other is, "Randy Roman does not dispute that he put a halt to the procedure. He declined to appear on the broadcast with his ex-wife, but acknowledged in court that he changed his mind about going through with the procedure just hours before the clinic was scheduled to implant Augusta's fertilized eggs in her uterus in April 2002."

It would seem to me that Randy Roman might stop being such an asshole if his ex wife would sign an agreement to terminate his parental rights and responsibilities, including any right she has to child support.

This guy was beyond cruel allowing his wife to go through the hideous and painful procedure required to harvest eggs for in vitro, only to get cold feet just before the appointment to implant them. I have no sympathy at all for that little bastard.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. She has stated that she would release him from any parental

responsibility, but he's still being a dick.

I think they should treat it like any other property dispute. She gets half, he gets half, and neither has any say about what the other does with their half.

So she can go ahead and use her fertalized eggs, and he can flush his.

[Lance_Boyle]

7. she can't do that.

She can release him from any responsibility *to her* - but not to the child. This guy is smart to recognize that and seek to exercise his choice while he still can.

[RB TexLa]

8. If he can't withdraw his consent to them being used then she can't withdraw her consent to them

being destroyed. Which is what should have happened to them as the the parties agreed.

[siligut]

9. Rock and a hard place.

They signed a contract to have the embryos destroyed in the event of a divorce. The sticky part is that he put a hold on the implantation before the divorce, while they spent 16 months in counseling. Now that they’ve divorced, the contract becomes legit, not saying it is fair, but that seems to be the crux.

She is 46 and those embryos may be her last chance to mother a child. He says he doesn’t want to be the biological father of her child. What a shitty situation, though I tend toward natural selection in matters like this, I feel a good deal of compassion for the would be mother.