Comments on: How one samurai judge handled positive externalities https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/02/samurai-cooking-judge/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 27 Feb 2016 04:10:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: VMS https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/02/samurai-cooking-judge/comment-page-1/#comment-333583 Sat, 27 Feb 2016 04:10:44 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=57815#comment-333583 @ Ron Read your Bible: 1 Kings 3:16-28

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+3%3A16-28&version=KJV

]]> By: Ron https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/02/samurai-cooking-judge/comment-page-1/#comment-333562 Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:10:09 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=57815#comment-333562 If you go to the bottom of the article linked too, there is a link to the book this story is from (Ooka the wise). This is actually a children’s book that I read as a child. It a series of short stories, more like fables, about court cases Ooka over saw and solved using common sense, so not sure how historically accurate the stories are. Included is a retelling of the story of 2 women fighting over a child ( who was due a large inheritance) and Ooka deciding the solution was to cut the child in two and give half to each. Of course the real mother refused and said she would rather give up the child than see it die, while the false mother was all for it because she would then get half the money.

Maybe that is what is missing today, children being taught common sense-

]]> By: No Name Guy https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/02/samurai-cooking-judge/comment-page-1/#comment-333550 Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:27:06 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=57815#comment-333550 Given some of the equally phantom damages that are claimed in suits today, I suspect this would be an appropriate method of payment for said “damages”.

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