So many lawsuits are just plain ridiculous.
2007-01-25 06:26:04 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Hell I don't know. No one wants to take responsibility for their own actions. They are always looking for someone else to put the blame on. Oops I spilled my hot coffee on me and burned myself while I was talking on my cell phone and driving down the road- that must be McDonalds fault because the coffee was too hot. I always thought lawyers were supposed to have ethics, but that's a joke. no respectable attorney would take on a ridiculous case like the man who got fat from eating at Burger King or whatever. It's a sad world when someone can cut their hand on the glass from your window while breaking into your house and turn around and sue your homeowners insurance and win.
2007-01-25 08:36:17 · answer #1 · answered by wrjones559_1999 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not my problem. Seriously though, it's because we've become an impatient, instant gratification, throw away society. After all what happened to appliances that would last more than 5 years? What happened to cars that people would keep for 20-25 years? They don't make them to last because people always want bigger, better, new and improved (which I see as an oxymoron). I agree lawsuits are way out of hand, there are far too many sue happy people. There's only one way to change it, teach our children to take responsibilty. Which brings me to one more point - schools will no longer teach penmanship, instead it's keyboarding. English teachers all over are cringing because the new language isn't English or Spanish, it's IM'ing or texting. Excuse me I have to step off my soapbox now (hope I don't fall, I'll have to sue you)>
2007-01-25 06:37:26 · answer #2 · answered by Mickey 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's an inversion of the classic comic book quote: "With great power, comes great responsibility."
Quite simply, a lot of people who are not CEOs or lawyers or politicians feel completely *powerless* over much of their lives. Good people after bad ones can *randomly* lose their jobs and get put on welfare *no matter what they do*. Elections go wrong and the Rich Guys get who they want *no matter how the rest of us vote*. Parents do their best to raise their children right....only to see them die in a school shooting because so many other parents *don't bother*.
Simply put. If people no longer believe they have any control over their lives, if they think they can no longer be effective with people or even with the circumstances of their own lives....yeah, after a while people *stop caring* and stop "being responsible", because when you are dis-empowered to that much of a degree....
Self-responsibility becomes *self Blame* for circumstances that have been *Taken* out of your control.
And that is the non-cynical answer. I'd be remiss and naive if I didn't admit that some people are less responsible and less conscientious than others, and that they look for *reasons* and when reasons aren't there, they look for *excuses* to be "on the make" and to be predatory in whatever way they can. I get that.
But the truth is, if people, ordinary, non-filthy rich *people* mind you, if we had more *control* over the needed things in our lives, we could be more responsible and *demonstrate* a better example to those among us who get tempted....
Because it takes *at least* two to tango. And I cannot in clear conscience blame ordinary people who are losing jobs and bleeding money left, right and center, while *Multi-Billion Dollar Corporations* carry on with being jerks. Be they Big Business, Big Media, Big Religion, the Government, whatever....
It's like the other poster above me said: Hold the Powers that Be to Account and Ordinary People will Gladly Be Responsible.
2007-01-25 06:53:06 · answer #3 · answered by Bradley P 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Liberals have made the term useless. Don't want to work, that's ok, we will give you welfare. Notice how all the things that were once considered bad habits, smoking, drinking, doing drugs, these are all now diseases. If you're a pedophile, that's alright... you have a disease. The lack of personal responsability is what is causing the decline and fall of western civilization. The secular progressives first eliminate God. Then they eliminate responsability. Then we are dependent upon the government for everything. Makes me want to puke.
2007-01-25 06:37:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It went the way of corporate responsibility. Hold the powerful accountable, and the people will follow.
2007-01-25 06:32:36 · answer #5 · answered by Elijah 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
does no longer delivery administration be very own duty? i became observing TLC the place a family contributors had 19 toddlers, some human beings purely cant guard lots of toddlers, delivery administration isn't an abortion.
2016-11-01 06:46:49 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has a lot to do with the government and way too many rules and the notion that government is supposed to take care of you. I mean, c'mon people, do we really need the government to tell us we shouldn't drink and drive, whether or not to spank our kids, and any number of other things?!
2007-01-25 06:35:14 · answer #7 · answered by darthbouncy 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Liberalism.
2007-01-25 06:31:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
we are a nation of laws with a strong tradition of republicanism.
people choose to settle their differences through the courts rather than in their own hands.
this sounds like a pretty civlized way of doing things to me.
2007-01-25 07:06:03 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. O 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Too many lawyers, I guess. .
2007-01-25 06:33:14 · answer #10 · answered by red belle 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋