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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >O.K., I have one for ya, James.  If you agreed to sell someone a gun and 
> then found out they were suicidal, would you still sell them the gun?
> 
> 

First, I have nothing against suicide.  People do it all the time, quickly 
or slowly.

But that doesn't answer your question.

If it is important to you what someone does with what you sell them, the 
time to look into that is BEFORE you agree to the sale.   My own feelings 
about that is that I can't control what people do.  Dozens of times I've 
traced 
down offers of sheep and rabbits for sale only to find that the person 
wanted me to foreswear that I did not intend to eat them.   

The example of the car:   What if, instead of being a high performance car 
which you thought the person did not have the skill and judgment to operate, 
it had been a stoggie old beat up van or pickup like I drive?   How can you 
prevent selling that to a complete klutz and moron who is going to get 
killed in it just as surely?

So I'd say if you are concerned, interview the buyer much more closely than 
an unconcerned person would.  "This is a dangerous car and I'm not selling 
it to just anyone!"   Then if you find htat the person has misrepresented 
themselves or their intentions, then there never was a legitimate agreement.  
They did not act in good faith.</HTML>