• Corhen@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    ask yourself this: if a random person mike lindell’s age offered 5 million dollars if someone could prove the earth isn’t flat, would someone ever be allowed to collect that in court?

    If someone who was known to be relatively rich held a competition, where he repeatedly made the claim, and said anyone who could prove him wrong would be paid, set requirements “you have to pay to come to my event to make a claim”, and then advertised that fact, then yes, i think that person would have an appropriate claim.

    At some point, ‘you’ have to take responsibility for your actions. If I a bet online, and lost, I would expect to have to pay.