Re: [Paddlewise] FW: Costco selling kayaks/

clyde.sisler_at_wang.com wrote:
> 
> Sometimes ridiculous stories look a lot less ridiculous when all the
> facts are known.
> ----------
> 
> Next time you're in a hardware store, take a look at all the warning labels
> on a wooded step ladder.  There must be 20 of them.
> 
> I forget what it's called, but you know the little bitty platform that pulls
> out for you to put your paint can on?  Some guy sued the ladder company and
> won when he stepped out on that platform, put his full weight on it, fell
> and broke something.
> 
> I like that saying "You can't legislate stupidity".  You can't measure it
> either but I sure know it when I see it.
> 
> There is not enough common sense in our legal systems nor in our everyday
> lives.  People need to take more responsibility for their own actions.

At the same time the manufacturers need to take responsibility when they
do
mess up.
And they need to be prosecuted when their actions are criminal.

Right now the only real recourse is the civil action for money damages.

The AMA complains about medical malpractice suits but their own studies
show
that less than 1 in 5 cases of ACTUAL MALPRACTICE is ever litigated or
even
investigated.
At the same time they know that less than 5% of doctors produce more than
90% 
of malpractice cases. Why not get rid of the BAD DOCTORS?

How about the Ford Molitov Pinto?
Some of the Ford executives should have gone to jail for that one. They
KNEW that
the design was DANGEROUS (not just unsafe) and they decided that it would
be 
cheaper to just pay off claims than to fix the gas tank design.
That sounds a lot like manslaughter to me, at the very least. In some
states
and cases it would likely be murder.

It is not just the little guy who should accept responsibility, it is
everyone
who IS responsible.

michael
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