Re: What's the difference?

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2010/4/24 8:13:46

I'm not one taken to philosophising on these pages, but as long as we've gone a bit off topic, my own opinion, having spent many years in health and safety within the chemical industry, is that most safety warnings for consumer products are not written by safety professionals at all. They are primarily written by product liability lawyers seeking to protect their clients from law suits, especially the frivolous kind.

Remember the woman who successfully sued a fast-food company because her coffee was too hot and she burned herself? There are too many in our society who just look to sue (and often win) and supplement their income rather than just take responsibility for their own actions.

There is a company that makes swimming pool chemicals and advertised that their chemicals made the water crystal-clear. So when some probably drunken jackass jumped into an empty pool and became a quadriplegic, he sued, saying the thought the pool was full of water treated by that company's chemicals. The shame of it is that he collected.

So someday some equally dumb jerk will try to eat a roll of toilet paper and choke to death, and his heirs will sue because the package didn't say "not for internal consumption". Sad, but that's the way society has become.