These sorts of nasty comments are uncalled for. He is honoring the contract. The contract apparently allows for walking away. But even if it didn’t, even if he were breaching the contract, well, to say that breaching a contract is indicative of a lack of morality ethics or pride is, well, kind of just wrong.
Indeed, in contracts class at most any law school you might pass through, most professors will touch on the subject of efficient breach and the policy issues involved. Since contracts and exchanges are supposed to maximize utility and happiness, we as a society don’t want people locked into contracts and would prefer that they breach them when the breach results in greater utility all around.
there can be penalties for breach, and that’s certainly part of making sure the breach is efficient, so long as everyone understands and agrees on the penalties if any at the outset. or the contract could allow for breach by either party at any time. Like an employment contract could say, hey, you can quit any time, we can fire you any time. That would be arguably be more efficient in some cases, since the employer could get rid of a deadbeat and the employee could move on to greener pastures.
Maybe the easiest example to see is marriage. We prefer miserable people to get divorced. it’s less eficient for society if wives stay witht heir abusers, or men stay with women who won’t have sex with them. Better to breach the contract so that both parties can maximize their happines. Honoring the contract for its own sake probably doesn’t make us a more moral, ethical or prouder society. Ideally, it would be nice if the parties wanted to honor the contract, but would you yell at some woman who was breaching her marriage contract that she has no pride because she was breaking her marriage contract and dumping the dude who beat and raped her every night? so, grow up…don’t berate a guy for the efficient breach of his contract.
