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[Phil Stracchino]

On 07/15/11 23:04, Mouse wrote:
> The problem is not that someone did something brainstampingly stupid.
> _That_ problem will pretty much always be with us.  The problem here -
> as I see it! - is that the US legal system is willing to hold person
> (or, more likely, company) B legally liable for failing to prevent
> person A's mindnumbing stupidity from having its correct consequences.
> A legal system that's willing to apply basic intelligence, to toss such
> a thing out of court and slap the initiator with a "frivolous suit"
> penalty, would fix that problem in jig time.

I'm with you 100%.  The US needs to see a LOT more ridiculous liability
lawsuits dismissed as frivolous, and the plaintiffs (and their counsel)
fined for contempt of court.

In part, this all comes back to the bizarre idea that developed,
sometime in the '70s as best I can figure, not only that it is
*possible* in the first place to eliminate all risk from life, but that
if it were possible, it would be a good idea.  It's not.  It is a
HORRIBLY BAD idea.


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