Was neuer any Impe so wicked and barbarous, any Turke so vyle and brutishe.

Chiseled into rock in Kinmen County’s Jinhu Township (金湖) are the Chinese characters for one of Chiang Kai-shek’s (蔣介石) favorite memes. Translated they read: “Remember our days at Ju” (毋忘在莒), referencing the Warring States period when the armies of the state of Qi were forced to retreat to the city of Ju. Once there, they regrouped and returned to regain their lost territory.

I closed my eyes and tried to think happy thoughts. But unfortunately the thoughts that kept popping up were of pinking shears, murder, kangarooburgers.

Unlike contract law, though, tort law focuses on the dark regions of unconsent, revealing how its various types and subtypes range along a scale of justification. Express unconsent – such as the cry “Stop hitting me!” – evokes tort remedies more readily than does mere implied or hypothetical unconsent.