Would sign a contract that you didn't understand?

Question

Aparantly, almost noone understands the Lisbon Treaty (that includes MPs and the public).

I suspect that this was deliberate - the original Constitution was understandable, so every one understood how bad it was - the Lisbon Treaty says the same, but does it in the least understandable way possible.

Could you vote in favour of something you don't understand? What would you think of people who did vote for something they didn't understand?

Answer 1

Personally I would not vote or sign for anything I did not understand, but if it could not be explained in plain English, and I abstained due to lack of understandable information,

as I would not register a vote would this not increase the chance of a badly explained or worded proposition getting through?

Answer 2

iny 1 who sins a contract w-o noing whut it meens is plane stupid

Answer 3

No!

Answer 4

Democracy relies on informed consent, which is conspicuously absent in all democratic societies today.

Unless you believe that everyone who is voting for you has the exact same understanding of the issues and consequences, you are a fascist dictator.

I could never in good conscience vote for something I didn't understand, as I would be aware that my vote was non-democratic, and only supported the manipulations of some political leech.

Answer 5

First let me call your second paragraph into question. You call the Constitution bad? Well have you seen any other democracy turn out so well? Does every country guaranty the same rights as the United States? I'd also like to add the countries current position of 1787. We were in debt, the Articles of Confederation wasn't working at all, the United States weren't even united, we needed a sound government and no one at the Constitutional Convention could agree and were afraid of a monarchy. So they debated for months and finally came out with possibly the best form of government in centuries, possibly even thousands of years! If you don't like the country get the h**l out because unlike many other countries we don't force you to stay!!!

No, I could not and would not vote for something I didn't understand because voting means your voting on who or what the general publics future is. Voting for something you don't understand or believe in may hurt the general public. The Lisbon Treaty is at least an attempt to make something better. True they should have made it more understandable.

Answer 6

I could definitely not sign something that I didn't understand totally.  Those people who do are lazy, uneducated, mavericks who have no place in politics or even in business.