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^ I can’t believe Dionysus the motherf___ is still trying to convince himself (or herself) and other ppl on this thread that carefreely violating the ED agreement is perfectly practical.</p>
<p>okay look buddy,</p>
<p>1) yes you are PEFECTLY RIGHT that ED agreement is not legally binding.</p>
<p>2) But it is like a promise - make a promise to you best friend on something as serious as higher education (idk, this is going to be a weird analogy but I guess anything works for folks like Dionysus - a promise to look after his ill mother while he’s away or something). Then you found out that you need to study for your test, and thinking your test is more important, neglects your promised/pleged responsibilities to his mother. He comes back and finds out…</p>
<p>3) There are tons of other non legally binding contracts in society. When you make pledges (to NPR, or any other public organization), it is based on the mutual acknowlegement that you will live up to your words and deliver the pledge-donated money. They count the “pledged” money into their total budget plans, even when the actual money hasnt arrived yet, because it is based on honor and trust. Thank god not everyone in the states are like Dionysus, or else…</p>
<p>4) vossron, I don’t know why the heck your coming in all snobby and shet and backing up Dionysus. And stop bringing up your financial aid crap, it’s been established that the OP WAS NOT CONSIDERING FINANCIAL AID when he was thinking about backing out of the ED. Even if he was, admissiongeek has covered everything there needs to know about backing out of ED’s for financial reasons (I can attest to that because my best friend’s dad is an admission officer for Dartmouth, and said the EXACT SAME THINGS AS ADMISSIONGEEK). ■■■■. please.</p>
<p>5) Ethnics is subjective, is it Dionysus? To a degree yes, but ask anyone if violating a contract that you’ve signed carefreely without any punishments is ethically condoned. Except for yourself, since you’re pretty messed up to say the least, I’m not sure if anyone would agree.
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<p>The things apparently educated people come up with on this board continues to astonish me. I’m not prepared to have a discussion on the rights and wrongs of breaking promises, I’m not a philosopher and it isn’t relevant. All I will say is that I am a pragmatist, and if my happiness depends upon breaking a promise (which neither hurts nor affects anybody else) such as ED, then I will not hesitate to do so.</p>
<p>I gather by your desperate attempts at insulting me that you have nothing else to say on the matter. I trust that your total lack of argument and reason is enough to convince other readers of this thread of the merits of what I’ve said.</p>