Drove and hit a cow to death, and paid thirty thousand yuan. Didn’t the dead cow belong to me?
No. If you break a bottle of Moutai in a mall and you pay according to the listed price, then you take the broken bottle with you—this is called purchase.
But the cow isn’t merchandise. The owner never intended to sell it. The thirty thousand you paid is to make up for the other party’s loss, not the cost of buying the cow.
By this logic, if I want to eat chicken, should I go to the village and just kill one, then leave it at the market price? That’s called coercive purchase.
If you hit someone’s cow that wasn’t for sale, what you’re paying for is the fault, not the payment for goods. If you want the cow, you need the owner’s consent—not something you’re entitled to by right.
No. If you break a bottle of Moutai in a mall and you pay according to the listed price, then you take the broken bottle with you—this is called purchase.
But the cow isn’t merchandise. The owner never intended to sell it. The thirty thousand you paid is to make up for the other party’s loss, not the cost of buying the cow.
By this logic, if I want to eat chicken, should I go to the village and just kill one, then leave it at the market price? That’s called coercive purchase.
If you hit someone’s cow that wasn’t for sale, what you’re paying for is the fault, not the payment for goods. If you want the cow, you need the owner’s consent—not something you’re entitled to by right.