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Thus, a [[disclaimer]] fills this unspoken septic hinterland with calming doggerel intended to dampen, insulate and inoculate those empty spaces, like so many polystyrene chips in a mail-order carton. | Thus, a [[disclaimer]] fills this unspoken septic hinterland with calming doggerel intended to dampen, insulate and inoculate those empty spaces, like so many polystyrene chips in a mail-order carton. | ||
In penning a disclaimer, spurn whatever commitment you have<ref>it is usually salutary and insincere</ref> to brevity. | In penning a disclaimer, spurn whatever commitment you have<ref>Be honest: it is usually salutary and insincere.</ref> to brevity. Stuff your prose with [[passive]]s, redundancies, jargon and [[double negative]]s. Repeat yourself, repeat yourself again and, [[for the avoidance of doubt]], repeat yourself. The less you say and the more elaborate the constructions you use to say it, the better. Put it in seven point, the wrong font, margins skewiff at the back of the document, and label it “Important information that you must read”. BREAK INTO LONG TRACTS OF BOLD CAPITALS FOR NO OBVIOUS REASON. LABEL THEM A NOTICE TO NEW HAMPSHIRE RESIDENTS. | ||
===What if it is not enough?=== | |||
The sky might, yet, fall in on your head. What if the ''very act of disclaiming liability'' invokes some new, un-thought of, liability? Could your [[magic incantation]] inadvertently summon from across the Styx some new demonic imp to ply your client with liability? | |||
The epistemologists among you will know this is impossible to rule out in theory, however absurd it might seem in practice: ''[[nego, ergo advocatum sum]]'', as [[Descartes]] memorably put it. But you can always try, by adding to the bottom of your disclaimer a ''[[disclaimer]]'': | |||
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