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Grow Up Americans - Stop Suing Corporate America
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
Blogging Things Daily espouses the Tort Reform line: Americans need to stop suing manufacturers. We need to grow up and simply make better choices and leave corporate America alone. If we don't, the world as we know it will come to an end.
I agree with the concession in the article that we live in a society where numerous unhealthy products are created, manufactured, distributed and sold to consumers.
Freedom of choice - we have a distinct CHOICE whether or not to use certain products - I also recognize and value.
How we get from unhealthy or dangerous products and freedom of choice to granting immunity to corporate America, however, is a mystery to my greedy brain. I certainly choose to drive my car each day, to obtain medical care, to have prescriptions filled, to fly in airplanes, to ride on buses, to lower my fanny into lawn chairs, to crank up my chairsaw, to eat at restaurants, to walk into supermarkets, to breathe continuously and to be a responsible citizen who does as little as I can to put anyone else at risk.
Apparently, because corporate America does not drive a car, obtain medical care, get prescriptions filled, fly in airplanes, ride on buses, sit in lawn chairs, use chainsaws, eat at restaurants, walk into supermarkets or breathe it is licensed to injure and kill us humans. It is up to humans to stay out of its way.
According to an article written by Michael Weissentstein, A New York Jury awarded $20 Million in punitive damages to a smoker's widow (after a jury deliberation of over two days).Let's take a long and very deep perspective of the grand effects this ruling may have on corporate America:
...the phenomenal repercussion of this landmark decision may create extreme, adverse effects.
...would it not only be right and justifiable that ALL persons who have died from lung cancer due to smoking should be awarded equal amounts as well?
[Then follows a parade of defective products which have caused injuries.]
The fact is, we live in a society where numerous unhealthy products are created, manufactured, distributed and sold to consumers. The point being that we CANNOT hold every company responsible for OUR OWN ACTIONS...The nice thing about America, is that we have a distinct CHOICE whether or not to use certain products. When our overuse, misuse or general use of a product comes with repercussions, we must choose to accept our own fate and learn from it.
I leave you with one piece of advice: Live. Learn. Prevent. Suing industries for our own choices, is a travesty to America and will ultimately lead to irrevocable circumstances.
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