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The United States legal system needs some major reform. First off, let's discuss the alarming ease at which someone can be sued. If someone punches my arm and I get a bruise, I can sue them for the damages if I wanted to. And that is ridiculous. There was a man who actually sued God just to prove this point. People should not live in fear of being sued for the slightest thing that is not their fault. For instance, at my high school, you cannot leave campus for lunch because it is a liability for the school. Well how in the hell is it the school's fault if a student leaves campus? They can't keep track of 1600 kids and whether they leave school or not when they're not supposed to. People should only be able to sue when something was intentionally or carelessly done to ruin their lives.
Now let's discuss prisons. Our prisons are ridiculously inhumane. The guards don't give a **** if people get raped or beaten because if they did care, it wouldnt be happening so frequently. In prison, peoples' lives are endangered for messing with the wrong prisoner and there's nothing they can do about it. The prison system is also corrupt because of the fact that it outsources the prison labor to private companies. Prisons should be GOVERNMENT-RUN and have nice facilities free of danger. In fact, prisons should be a holding place, not a hellish world of punishment. Perhaps a large segregated area in uninhabited parts of the US where they are at least allowed to live semi-bearable lives.
Also, capital punishment must be abolished if we are going to actually be humane people. What is this, 1600s Europe?? Are we REALLY still murdering people for comitting crimes? I mean I hate rapists and pedophiles as much as the next person, but we have no right to kill them.
And one last point I have to make is that it is ridiculous how people can be jailed based on technicalities such as statutory rape and such. If an 18 year old and a 15 year old have consensual sex, and the 15 year old testifies that it was consensual, the 18 year old should not go to jail or be on the sex offenders list. It's ridiculous. Now it would be different if it was with say, a 12 year old because even if that was consensual, they havent even hit puberty most likely, and their brain is still in the concrete operations stage (psychology term) which therefore makes it immoral.
BAM
Yeah, you "hate" them so much you want to set them up in condos. :roll:Also, capital punishment must be abolished if we are going to actually be humane people. What is this, 1600s Europe?? Are we REALLY still murdering people for comitting crimes? I mean I hate rapists and pedophiles as much as the next person, but we have no right to kill them.
BAM
Yeah, you "hate" them so much you want to set them up in condos. :roll:
Well we don't kill rapists and pedophiles, we just kill killers.Hahaha I see your point. I do hate them but we aren't a bunch of wild animals, we can't just kill them. We can't let emotion overtake our humanity.
Well we don't kill rapists and pedophiles, we just kill killers.
It's not hypocritical at all and it's not murder. It actually shows we value life by exacting the highest price possible for taking it.But isn't that hypocritical? We punish a murderer by comitting murder ourselves?
It's not hypocritical at all and it's not murder. It actually shows we value life by exacting the highest price possible for taking it.
Is it evil to destroy evil? I don't think so.No it actually shows that we are indeed hypocrites by doing something that we are trying to discourage. We have no right to take someone's life and the government is evil for allowing it.
But isn't that hypocritical? We punish a murderer by comitting murder ourselves?
The United States legal system needs some major reform. First off, let's discuss the alarming ease at which someone can be sued. If someone punches my arm and I get a bruise, I can sue them for the damages if I wanted to. And that is ridiculous. There was a man who actually sued God just to prove this point. People should not live in fear of being sued for the slightest thing that is not their fault. For instance, at my high school, you cannot leave campus for lunch because it is a liability for the school. Well how in the hell is it the school's fault if a student leaves campus? They can't keep track of 1600 kids and whether they leave school or not when they're not supposed to. People should only be able to sue when something was intentionally or carelessly done to ruin their lives.
Now let's discuss prisons. Our prisons are ridiculously inhumane. The guards don't give a **** if people get raped or beaten because if they did care, it wouldnt be happening so frequently. In prison, peoples' lives are endangered for messing with the wrong prisoner and there's nothing they can do about it. The prison system is also corrupt because of the fact that it outsources the prison labor to private companies. Prisons should be GOVERNMENT-RUN and have nice facilities free of danger. In fact, prisons should be a holding place, not a hellish world of punishment. Perhaps a large segregated area in uninhabited parts of the US where they are at least allowed to live semi-bearable lives.
Also, capital punishment must be abolished if we are going to actually be humane people. What is this, 1600s Europe?? Are we REALLY still murdering people for comitting crimes? I mean I hate rapists and pedophiles as much as the next person, but we have no right to kill them.
And one last point I have to make is that it is ridiculous how people can be jailed based on technicalities such as statutory rape and such. If an 18 year old and a 15 year old have consensual sex, and the 15 year old testifies that it was consensual, the 18 year old should not go to jail or be on the sex offenders list. It's ridiculous. Now it would be different if it was with say, a 12 year old because even if that was consensual, they havent even hit puberty most likely, and their brain is still in the concrete operations stage (psychology term) which therefore makes it immoral.
BAM
The United States legal system needs some major reform. First off, let's discuss the alarming ease at which someone can be sued. If someone punches my arm and I get a bruise, I can sue them for the damages if I wanted to. And that is ridiculous. There was a man who actually sued God just to prove this point. People should not live in fear of being sued for the slightest thing that is not their fault. For instance, at my high school, you cannot leave campus for lunch because it is a liability for the school. Well how in the hell is it the school's fault if a student leaves campus? They can't keep track of 1600 kids and whether they leave school or not when they're not supposed to. People should only be able to sue when something was intentionally or carelessly done to ruin their lives.
Now let's discuss prisons. Our prisons are ridiculously inhumane. The guards don't give a **** if people get raped or beaten because if they did care, it wouldnt be happening so frequently. In prison, peoples' lives are endangered for messing with the wrong prisoner and there's nothing they can do about it. The prison system is also corrupt because of the fact that it outsources the prison labor to private companies. Prisons should be GOVERNMENT-RUN and have nice facilities free of danger. In fact, prisons should be a holding place, not a hellish world of punishment. Perhaps a large segregated area in uninhabited parts of the US where they are at least allowed to live semi-bearable lives.
Also, capital punishment must be abolished if we are going to actually be humane people. What is this, 1600s Europe?? Are we REALLY still murdering people for comitting crimes? I mean I hate rapists and pedophiles as much as the next person, but we have no right to kill them.
And one last point I have to make is that it is ridiculous how people can be jailed based on technicalities such as statutory rape and such. If an 18 year old and a 15 year old have consensual sex, and the 15 year old testifies that it was consensual, the 18 year old should not go to jail or be on the sex offenders list. It's ridiculous. Now it would be different if it was with say, a 12 year old because even if that was consensual, they havent even hit puberty most likely, and their brain is still in the concrete operations stage (psychology term) which therefore makes it immoral.
The United States legal system needs some major reform. First off, let's discuss the alarming ease at which someone can be sued.
If someone punches my arm and I get a bruise, I can sue them for the damages if I wanted to.
And that is ridiculous.
There was a man who actually sued God just to prove this point.
People should not live in fear of being sued for the slightest thing that is not their fault.
For instance, at my high school, you cannot leave campus for lunch because it is a liability for the school.
Well how in the hell is it the school's fault if a student leaves campus?
They can't keep track of 1600 kids and whether they leave school or not when they're not supposed to.
People should only be able to sue when something was intentionally or carelessly done to ruin their lives.
Now let's discuss prisons. Our prisons are ridiculously inhumane.
The guards don't give a **** if people get raped or beaten because if they did care, it wouldnt be happening so frequently.
In prison, peoples' lives are endangered for messing with the wrong prisoner and there's nothing they can do about it.
The prison system is also corrupt because of the fact that it outsources the prison labor to private companies.
Prisons should be GOVERNMENT-RUN and have nice facilities free of danger.
In fact, prisons should be a holding place, not a hellish world of punishment.
Perhaps a large segregated area in uninhabited parts of the US where they are at least allowed to live semi-bearable lives.
Also, capital punishment must be abolished if we are going to actually be humane people.
What is this, 1600s Europe?? Are we REALLY still murdering people for comitting crimes? I mean I hate rapists and pedophiles as much as the next person, but we have no right to kill them.
And one last point I have to make is that it is ridiculous how people can be jailed based on technicalities such as statutory rape and such.
If an 18 year old and a 15 year old have consensual sex, and the 15 year old testifies that it was consensual, the 18 year old should not go to jail or be on the sex offenders list. It's ridiculous. Now it would be different if it was with say, a 12 year old because even if that was consensual, they havent even hit puberty most likely, and their brain is still in the concrete operations stage (psychology term) which therefore makes it immoral.
BAM
That's nothing, if you spill hot coffee on your stupid self, you can sue McDonalds.Anyway, I love the idea that in America you can sue your neighbor for not cutting his grass.eace
Coffee's supposed to be hot. It's not McDonald's fault if you can't keep it out of your lap.If McDonalds keep making their coffee unnecessarily hot despite previous warnings then you deservedly win....
Coffee's supposed to be hot. It's not McDonald's fault if you can't keep it out of your lap.
What was the problem with the cups? They weren't idiot proof? Stupid lawsuits like that one are the reason we get luke-warm coffee and warnings on everything.However, internal memos that show they were aware of the problem with their cups and that the temperature of their coffee could cause serious injury and yet they fail to act DOES create culpability. The case was a little more complex than a simple spilled cup of coffee.
MaggieD you are not allowed to be dizzy without permission. Although BAM BAM made some good points, especially for his age I am impressed.No.
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Four threads here. I'm dizzy.
I agree with just about your entire post although I would say that there probably a boat load people who should be in prison. We as a people and our government needs to stop slamming people into prison for ridiculous reasons...what we call crimes.Kal'Stang;1059384010]
What was the problem with the cups? They weren't idiot proof? Stupid lawsuits like that one are the reason we get luke-warm coffee and warnings on everything.
Yeah, 4 mil was just ridiculous. To many people look for reasons to sue business in the hope of winning a jackpot like that. I served on a civil jury awhile back where a lady had a box of paper fall on her at a Wal-Mart. By the end of the trial, the injury to her shoulder had supposedly spread to her other shoulder and she claimed she got PTSD because of it. :roll: Needless to say, we didn't give her near what she wanted.1) McDonalds served coffee at 180-190 degrees.
2) At 180 degrees coffee causes third degree burns in 2 to 7 seconds.
3) Between 1982 and 1992 McDonalds had received complaints from over 700 other customers about being burnt by the coffee(due to flimsy cups or spills or whatever). McDonalds settled these out of court. In addition McDonalds doubled down and suggested in internal memos that they should just set aside $500,000 to pay off victims.
4) While the Liebeck case might have been an example of needs caps on compensation, it is not an example of a frivolous lawsuit.
Yeah, 4 mil was just ridiculous. To many people look for reasons to sue business in the hope of winning a jackpot like that. I served on a civil jury awhile back where a lady had a box of paper fall on her at a Wal-Mart. By the end of the trial, the injury to her shoulder had supposedly spread to her other shoulder and she claimed she got PTSD because of it. :roll: Needless to say, we didn't give her near what she wanted.
The United States legal system needs some major reform. First off, let's discuss the alarming ease at which someone can be sued. If someone punches my arm and I get a bruise, I can sue them for the damages if I wanted to. And that is ridiculous. There was a man who actually sued God just to prove this point. People should not live in fear of being sued for the slightest thing that is not their fault. For instance, at my high school, you cannot leave campus for lunch because it is a liability for the school. Well how in the hell is it the school's fault if a student leaves campus? They can't keep track of 1600 kids and whether they leave school or not when they're not supposed to. People should only be able to sue when something was intentionally or carelessly done to ruin their lives.
Now let's discuss prisons. Our prisons are ridiculously inhumane. The guards don't give a **** if people get raped or beaten because if they did care, it wouldnt be happening so frequently. In prison, peoples' lives are endangered for messing with the wrong prisoner and there's nothing they can do about it. The prison system is also corrupt because of the fact that it outsources the prison labor to private companies. Prisons should be GOVERNMENT-RUN and have nice facilities free of danger. In fact, prisons should be a holding place, not a hellish world of punishment. Perhaps a large segregated area in uninhabited parts of the US where they are at least allowed to live semi-bearable lives.
Also, capital punishment must be abolished if we are going to actually be humane people. What is this, 1600s Europe?? Are we REALLY still murdering people for comitting crimes? I mean I hate rapists and pedophiles as much as the next person, but we have no right to kill them.
And one last point I have to make is that it is ridiculous how people can be jailed based on technicalities such as statutory rape and such. If an 18 year old and a 15 year old have consensual sex, and the 15 year old testifies that it was consensual, the 18 year old should not go to jail or be on the sex offenders list. It's ridiculous. Now it would be different if it was with say, a 12 year old because even if that was consensual, they havent even hit puberty most likely, and their brain is still in the concrete operations stage (psychology term) which therefore makes it immoral.
BAM
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