But actually do cross it out before signing, if that makes you feel any better.
Although the law says that clause is not enforceable, that does not mean you cannot abide by the terms.
I.e. reneging on your agreement is reneging on it, plain and simple. Signing the agreement knowing you're going to renege on it is unethical.
> But actually do cross it out before signing, if that makes you feel any better.
Man up and line it out if you aren't going to abide by it.
It’s unethical.
The notion that a college graduate is a poor thing that can't discover basic information for free is ridiculous.
> It’s unethical.
Again, your ethics are about you, not somebody else.
Legal BS is legal BS. Putting BS terms in a contract amounts to a direct personal insult. Calling attention to a direct personal insult can be counterproductive, but signing it anyway is a way to spit on their insult, silently. Having disposed of that, you are on even terms again. You can trade unspoken insults day after day, if they like; each time you don't acknowledge one, it is one back. That is what we call business, in the modern US of A. It isn't necessary, or good, but those motivate only some Americans. They could choose to interact honorably any time they like, but they choose not to.
It is better to find circumstances where they do; but not everybody can, all the time. Nobody should need to suffer, or feel obliged to suffer, for being pinned where they cannot call out insults. Power imbalances are the norm, today. There is no possibility of free agreement, or of honor holding any meaning, under an enforced power imbalance. That should be as sad for them powerful as for us, but they never seem discomfited by it.
I never suggested that. I specifically said call it out, line it out, and say you don't agree.