Posted on 06/01/2005 4:16:31 PM PDT by Cowman
In observing the sad state of our society I have noticed a few things that seem to be related. there is a tremendous proliferation of over reaching regulation to prevent accidents. There are air bags and passive restraints to prevent deaths in car crashes. There are all kinds of restrictions on how I can arrange things on my own property to prevent trespassers from hurting themselves. I can't buy a mercury thermometer because some idiot might get exposed to a small amount of a heavy metal. These regulations exist to keep idiots from hurting themselves in the normal course of being idiots.
The idiots appear to be taking over society. An idiot spills coffee on himself and they sue the restaurant and win substantially more than the price of the coffee. The cookie monster is made into the celery monster because cookies are unhealthy. (I just can't fathom Ol' Cookie singing C is for Celery!) Starbucks is able to call a small coffee a "Grande" and charge five bucks for something you can get at the gas station for a buck and a half. And Kerry was considered a serious candidate for President of the United States.
I believe these things are related that by regulating against accidents stupid people are not killing themselves like they are supposed to and the resulting increase in stupidity is pulling the collective IQ of the country down making us an entire nation stupid people.
Perhaps we should start letting the dumb play with blasting caps or grizzly bear insulting.
What do you think?
Prostitute, assassin, drug dealer, just to start. Society has decided that these are professions best not practiced, or to be severely limited.
But trial lawyers prey on the innate greed of the masses, who secretly hope they will get that megabucks winning civil suit spilled in their lap, so to speak. They are lottery tickets walking around and everyone is hoping for the big payout.
Such greed has its price, and we are all paying it.
Nope. The other Washington. They've infested here too!
You don't say? I am sorry though, attorneys are normally not stupid, realtors are. As far as crooks go, you have a very rock solid argument.
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