You are the owner of a new italian restaurant in town. one day betty and steve enter your restaurant, take a seat at one of your booths, and order two pasta dinners from the waiter. betty and steve enjoy the meal, compliment you on your culinary skill, and refuse to pay for their meals. betty and steve reason that because they never entered into a written contract with you to provide food for money, that they should not have to pay for it. naturally, you disagree and are thinking about using them for the cost of expensive meals. discuss whether betty and steve are responsible for paying for their dinners and the reasons why.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion