From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 05:09:41 MDT
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>Alfio Puglisi wrote:
>
>> As I said before, it's a matter of balancing things. If discovering the
>> GM status of my food requires an effort comparable to the OJ Simpson
>> investigations, I feel that the rules should be shifted to benefit the
>> consumer a little bit more.
>
>The consumer is a lazy selfish idiot who fails to obey caveat emptor,
>and deserves what they get.
You are using some strong language here. I don't have the time to check
*everything*. When you buy a battery, do you check a CR report to be sure
that it won't explode in your hands? Do you check a no-brand $20 chair for
weight requirements? Maybe it collapses over 60 Kg, and you didn't asked
the salesman for that. In your ideal free market system, no government is
requiring mininum standards for chairs, so if you sit on it, and it
collapses and you get a spinal cord injury are you just an idiot? Sure,
you can sue the company. The damage is already done. And did you check if
there's a label for the chair's materials toxicity? Maybe there's a little
label that says "No water, otherwise it'll break" (of course, there's a
better chair with a label "Water is fine"). Or maybe the label isn't
there, and you should ask for it too. Or buy the CR report and spend 2
hours studying the matter. IF there is a chair article. IF enough "idiots"
bought the chair, to build a high enough complaint.
Ok, I'm ranting too far. But I hope that a little regulation doesn't
sound unfair. I want to know what I buy. And I don't want to spend my life
worrying about it.
Alfio
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 09:15:14 MST