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{{a|negotiation|[[File:Absolute unit.png|450px|thumb|center|An [[absolute]] unit, yesterday.]]}}Also known as “[[discretion]]”, seeing as a [[discretion]] is not really the sort of thing that admits of degrees. You either ''have'' a discretion, or you ''don’t'' and, generally in a [[contract]], as in life, you ''do'', except where you have categorically agreed you do ''not''. In none of these cases does the adjective “absolute” move the conversation on. | {{a|negotiation|[[File:Absolute unit.png|450px|thumb|center|An [[absolute]] unit, yesterday.]]}}Also known as “[[discretion]]”, seeing as a [[discretion]] is not really the sort of thing that admits of degrees. You either ''have'' a discretion, or you ''don’t'' and, generally in a [[contract]], as in life, you ''do'', except where you have categorically agreed you do ''not''. In none of these cases does the adjective “absolute” move the conversation on. | ||
That said, as a percussive adjective, “absolute” does pleasingly punctuate a sentence, rather, in the same way it does when placed next to the word “''twat''”. | That said, as a percussive adjective, “absolute” does pleasingly punctuate a sentence, rather, in the same way it does when placed next to the word “''twat''”.<ref>Our American Sensibility consultant advises that this word might not have quite the playful connotations it does on this side of the Atlantic — but we are sure the enlightened sophisticates in the fashionable salons of Manhattan and Menlo Park, the JC’s regular readers, will enjoy the carefree ''Europeanness'' of seeing such depravity and, for a little moment, being cool with it.</ref> | ||
An “absolute” [[discretion]] is to be contrasted in theory, if not really in practice, with one that is bounded by an overriding obligation to act “in [[good faith]], and in a [[commercially reasonable manner]]”. But, as we have sounded off [[Commercial imperative|elsewhere]], any merchant that acts in [[bad faith|''bad'' faith]], or in a [[Commercially reasonable|commercially ''un''reasonable]] manner, ''even if his contract permits it'', should not expect to have clients for very long. | An “absolute” [[discretion]] is to be contrasted in theory, if not really in practice, with one that is bounded by an overriding obligation to act “in [[good faith]], and in a [[commercially reasonable manner]]”. But, as we have sounded off [[Commercial imperative|elsewhere]], any merchant that acts in [[bad faith|''bad'' faith]], or in a [[Commercially reasonable|commercially ''un''reasonable]] manner, ''even if his contract permits it'', should not expect to have clients for very long. | ||