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<blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 7487996" data-attributes="member: 6683613">If we make a pact where I lend you my lawn mower and you agree to mow my lawn, and you welch on your side of the agreement, you don't immediately and automatically lose the lawn mower. Our pact is the source of the lawn mower - you wouldn't have gotten the lawn mower without the pact - but once the lawn mower is in your possession, the source of it is immaterial to the fact that you have it. I'm certainly going to be pissed at you for welching, and I'm going to do everything in my power to get my lawn mower back, and if I'm a god or devil then you are in a perilous position indeed. For the moment, though, you have the lawn mower and can do whatever you like with it.Of course, if instead of a lawn mower I am lending you my Netflix password, then the situation changes dramatically.All of this is to say that while your interpretation is not objectively wrong based on the evidence, it's not objectively right either. It all depends on the nature of the magic being granted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheCosmicKid, post: 7487996, member: 6683613"] If we make a pact where I lend you my lawn mower and you agree to mow my lawn, and you welch on your side of the agreement, you don't immediately and automatically lose the lawn mower. Our pact is the source of the lawn mower - you wouldn't have gotten the lawn mower without the pact - but once the lawn mower is in your possession, the source of it is immaterial to the fact that you have it. I'm certainly going to be pissed at you for welching, and I'm going to do everything in my power to get my lawn mower back, and if I'm a god or devil then you are in a perilous position indeed. For the moment, though, you have the lawn mower and can do whatever you like with it. Of course, if instead of a lawn mower I am lending you my Netflix password, then the situation changes dramatically. All of this is to say that while your interpretation is not objectively [I]wrong[/I] based on the evidence, it's not objectively [I]right[/I] either. It all depends on the nature of the magic being granted. [/QUOTE]

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