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Re: product liability (was 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..')

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonas Luster)
Wed Jul 25 09:25:22 2001

Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 02:24:24 -0400
From: Jonas Luster <jluster@d-fensive.com>
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* William Allen Simpson sez:

: Perhaps a different approach is in order -- product liability. =20
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: When Firestone made a large number of bad tires, they compensated the=20
: purchasers by PAYING for replacement, including those that had not yet=20
: been injured.  That included the upgrade, and the installation cost.

Will Chrysler pay me heaps of money if I break my jawbone in an accident
because I neglected to buckle up, turned the airbags off (the light on
the dashboard was kinda annoying), never drove a car before (or even
read a book on driving, for that matter) and nailed a stationery object
on the highway because noone ever told me about the functionality of
that middle pedal?

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