Because I like the way they put this:
the underlying purpose behind making a relationship contractual rather than voluntary is that at some point in the future, in changed circumstances, something people were at the outset willing to do may be something that they need to be compelled to do
The way it was phrased to me once, in the context of publishing contracts, was that they should be negotiated as though you and the publisher were the best of friends, but at some point in the life of the property, you would both be run over by a truck, and your heirs would hate each other.
—malkingrey
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