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Dick the butcher had it correct in Henry VI Part 2, act iv, scene ii.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

A good sentiment. But I like this advice from Dick better:

But methinks he should stand in fear of fire,
being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep.

Good ol' fashioned justice.

[longtermmemmory]

actually it was said in a conspiracy to take over the governemnt.

For every lawyer with an absurd argument is a defending lawyer. Without lawyers there would have been no defenders to the 2nd amendment, they would have swept abolition of the 2nd amendment across the USA like a dust storm.

Enforcemnt of contracts in court is also part of what makes the USA's ecconomy so attractive.

The issue is the tort reform. for example we still need to punish "suits" who calculate death from products as a cost of doing business, ala the infamous pinto case where it was decided the pay-offs in PI cases was cheeper than fixing the exploding gas tank problem.

Proximate cause needs to be defined and limited. Thus we can re-awaken "intervening supervening criminal acts" to provide a line to liability. (ie the stolen car used in a crime, solen gun, liquid cocain hidden in the sodabottle, etc.)