All or nothing you say? Well don't come crying to me.

Some of you may have heard me say in person in the past that if someone says, "All or nothing!" I don't feel much sympathy for them when they usually end up with nothing.

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Well, as I've said for some years now, when you say all or nothing it seems to me history usually doesn't say you'll get the all side of the equation. You might not get nothing, but it seems you usually get a heck of a worse deal than you were offered in the first place. And who knows, maybe when it reaches court it will turn out Party A was full of hot air and Party B has Perry Mason as a lawyer. But if that isn't the case I suspect someone is going to regret deciding to go for all or nothing.

(Edit: Oh, and as a note, quite intentionally not naming names as I'm not really interested in arguing the merits of that particular suit so much as commenting on my philosophy regarding people taking all-or-nothing positions.)