L. V. Lammert wrote:
At 03:12 PM 3/4/2009 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Isn't it ridiculous that we have come to the point that you are the guilty party when you fail to protect yourself and/or your property from another's transgressions. You are guilty because you have availed someone the opportunity to commit a crime.
Agreed - it's a shame, really, .. that an entire industry [legal torts], unique to the US, has arisen around such concepts that have absolutely no basis in common sense or any sane body of law.
I, for one, hope that cooler heads prevail and do not pass such obscene laws.
Laugh. Although it was only an April fools day joke that one of our states passed a law redefining pi to simply 3, so many other things just about as dumb are dishearteningly real. Science news has been running a series in honor of Darwin recenlty and pointed out that teachers are still actually obligated by law in some places to basically lie and claim that the theory of biological evolution is no more supportable by fact/evidence/logic, than creationism. And the debate is actually still hot and the creationists may yet get more legislation of greater impact written into law than already exists. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org