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
