Wacky Warning Labels

[Soundguy]

Consumer protection laws make dumber people, as a race, as time passes, and more breeding occurs..

soundguy

[PaulChristenson]

Originally Posted by Soundguy

Consumer protection laws make dumber people, as a race, as time passes, and more breeding occurs..

soundguy

Dumber people cause new Consumer protection laws, as a race, as time passes, and more breeding occurs..

Rent this movie...
Idiocracy (2006)

[Destructo_D]

Originally Posted by Iplayfarmer

My 2-year-old was having a hard time falling asleep after we moved her to a big-girl-bed. We gave her a dose of benadryl for her "allergies" hoping that it would cause drowsiness.

It had just the opposite affect. That was a fun 4 hours of one silly, hyper, happy little girl who would just not fall asleep.

I guess that all things do not affect all people the same.

I can tell you why too... It is the red dye in it... may as well have given her a energy drink... When my 6 year old boy was a little younger it had the same effect.. it's anything with red dye in it... instant hyper.....

thankfully he outgrew it.... well, the red dye anyway... lol

Darren

[sunspot]

Originally Posted by PaulChristenson

Rent this movie...
Idiocracy (2006)

Good movie. I think it was based on the book "Marching Morons" by C.M Kornbluth.

[Soundguy]

Originally Posted by PaulChristenson

Dumber people cause new Consumer protection laws, as a race, as time passes, and more breeding occurs..

Rent this movie...
Idiocracy (2006)

That sound slike a good circular corelary to my post.. etc... one begats the other.. etc..

soundguy

[patrick_g]

So long as average Joe and Jill American believe that no matter what BAD happens it is always someone else's fault and is NEVER their responsibility nor accountability and that the someone else should be sued we will live in an increasingly WARNING LABELED world.

Liability issues run amok.

When a bubble head orders what the menu calls HOT COFFEE, places it in her crotch and then sues the vendor when she scalds herself, receiving astronomical awards due to idiot juries who love to give away other peoples money, it is obvious that something is wrong. It isn't getting better.

Look at one of the strategies deployed by gun control/confiscation proponents. If someone is shot with a S&W gun then sue S&W under product liability law, wrongful death due to defective product. Luckily that didn't fly by under the RADAR . I don't personally see the defective product angle, it killed the guy targeted didn't it? Now if the gun blew up injuring the shooter that would be grounds for a defective product action.

There are plenty of individuals out there in the population who are looking for grounds to sue/win the lottery. So long as the legal system is out of whack and rewards the IDIOTS there will be IDIOTS queuing up to try to sue anyone for anything. This is what drives the whacky warnings. Common sense does not enter into it. Anyone selling a product needs to warn you about practically every potential misuse with a bad outcome or risk losing BIG $ to the sue happy ne're-do-wells which seem to abound.

One of the corner stones of the operant conditioning branch of psychology (and related disciplines) is:

Behavior that is rewarded is behavior that is repeated.

So long as we, the voting public, permit all these STUPID lawsuits then we the public are part of the problem which has as a direct result, wacky warnings.

Unfortunately wacky warnings are NOT the only "COST" to us. The same idiocy that drives wacky warnings drives the liability averse maneuvers that have to be made to protect a vendor of virtually any product or service. Everyone complains about the cost of health care but how many of the complainers are trying to do anything to control the malpractice lottery. Doctors are being driven out of business by suits that should never be allowed. Why do they order so many often expensive tests? Because if they don't and anything does not proceed swimmingly in the patients outcome the doctor gets sued for not doing everything that cold be done (whether it makes sense or not.)

The forgoing is for entertainment purposes only and NOT intended to be used as guidance or an influence on anyones personal actions. Any distress or provoked thoughts are purely coincidental and the responsibility of the reader NOT the author. Heaven forbid if anyone were to be effected by the above. The above writing is known by the state of California to cause cancer.

Pat

[Iplayfarmer]

Originally Posted by patrick_g

So long as average Joe and Jill American believe that no matter what BAD happens it is always someone else's fault and is NEVER their responsibility nor accountability and that the someone else should be sued we will live in an increasingly WARNING LABELED world.

Liability issues run amok.

When a bubble head orders what the menu calls HOT COFFEE, places it in her crotch and then sues the vendor when she scalds herself, receiving astronomical awards due to idiot juries who love to give away other peoples money, it is obvious that something is wrong. It isn't getting better.

Look at one of the strategies deployed by gun control/confiscation proponents. If someone is shot with a S&W gun then sue S&W under product liability law, wrongful death due to defective product. Luckily that didn't fly by under the RADAR . I don't personally see the defective product angle, it killed the guy targeted didn't it? Now if the gun blew up injuring the shooter that would be grounds for a defective product action.

There are plenty of individuals out there in the population who are looking for grounds to sue/win the lottery. So long as the legal system is out of whack and rewards the IDIOTS there will be IDIOTS queuing up to try to sue anyone for anything. This is what drives the whacky warnings. Common sense does not enter into it. Anyone selling a product needs to warn you about practically every potential misuse with a bad outcome or risk losing BIG $ to the sue happy ne're-do-wells which seem to abound.

One of the corner stones of the operant conditioning branch of psychology (and related disciplines) is:

Behavior that is rewarded is behavior that is repeated.

So long as we, the voting public, permit all these STUPID lawsuits then we the public are part of the problem which has as a direct result, wacky warnings.

Unfortunately wacky warnings are NOT the only "COST" to us. The same idiocy that drives wacky warnings drives the liability averse maneuvers that have to be made to protect a vendor of virtually any product or service. Everyone complains about the cost of health care but how many of the complainers are trying to do anything to control the malpractice lottery. Doctors are being driven out of business by suits that should never be allowed. Why do they order so many often expensive tests? Because if they don't and anything does not proceed swimmingly in the patients outcome the doctor gets sued for not doing everything that cold be done (whether it makes sense or not.)

The forgoing is for entertainment purposes only and NOT intended to be used as guidance or an influence on anyones personal actions. Any distress or provoked thoughts are purely coincidental and the responsibility of the reader NOT the author. Heaven forbid if anyone were to be effected by the above. The above writing is known by the state of California to cause cancer.

Pat

I was once told that in any lawsuit against a corporation of any kind, the jury is 12 consumers. I wish that juries and the voting public realized that ultimately it's their own money they are giving away.

NEWS FLASH!! We live in a capatalist society where companies are in business because they can make money at it. If the chain saw manufacturer has to have a lawyer on retainer to defend itself against the IDIOT that "stops the chain with [his] crotch" then the revenues of the company are going to have to support that cost. In the short term that single company will suffer a loss of profits, but as soon as all the companies in the same or similar businesses need a lawyer on retainer or whatever similar legal expenses they must incur, there's no competitive advantage and the market as a whole adjusts to the cost by raising chain saw prices.

Ultimately it's you and me that pay to reward these idiots for their behavior.

[PaulChristenson]

Originally Posted by patrick_g

So long as average Joe and Jill American believe that no matter what BAD happens it is always someone else's fault and is NEVER their responsibility nor accountability and that the someone else should be sued we will live in an increasingly WARNING LABELED world.

Liability issues run amok.

When a bubble head orders what the menu calls HOT COFFEE, places it in her crotch and then sues the vendor when she scalds herself, receiving astronomical awards due to idiot juries who love to give away other peoples money, it is obvious that something is wrong. It isn't getting better.

Pat

I'll take exception with this argument...

180 degrees is HOT for coffee...PERIOD!!!

McDonalds Lawsuit | McDonalds Hot Coffee Lawsuit

It is now a standard case in Tort Law Classes...Read the details of the injuries...
The Economics of Tort Law
Click on The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case

[BobRip]

Originally Posted by PaulChristenson

Dumber people cause new Consumer protection laws, as a race, as time passes, and more breeding occurs..

Rent this movie...
Idiocracy (2006)

Don't worry, a civilizaton collapse will come along and weed out the dumb. Also a lot of smart unprepared people. And people like me who need routine medication and battery replacement.

[N80]

Originally Posted by PaulChristenson

I'll take exception with this argument...

180 degrees is HOT for coffee...PERIOD!!!

McDonalds Lawsuit | McDonalds Hot Coffee Lawsuit

It is now a standard case in Tort Law Classes...Read the details of the injuries...
The Economics of Tort Law
Click on The McDonald's Hot Coffee Case

McDonalds made their coffee that hot because that is the way their customers wanted it. And if I remember the case, the cup had a warning on it.

I'm not a coffee drinker, but don't you make it with boiling water? Don't people tend to drink it hot?

There are two reasons this case is such a hallmark. The first is that the large majority of the American public feel the way many of us do; that the woman was foolish and negligent with an obviously and intuitively hot liquid and was given an utterly ridiculous reward. The rest of them think that the initial settlement by McDonalds was perfectly reasonable, even generous.

The second is that the legal community almost immediately recognized that McDonald's settlement offer and subsequent move to take the case to a jury was legal suicide. For lawyers the take home point is that you should never underestimate the amount of money that 12 handpicked monkeys will award to someone they can be made to sympathize with. That was the failure of the McDonalds legal team.

Or that's at least how it was explained to me by my father-in-law, who is an attorney.