Risking one life is immoral.
“Thing is, when you build a car you are, by definition, risking the life of every single person who buys one or rides in one.”
That argument is tendentious at best. It is clear that there is a vast difference between selling a car that one has every reason to think is suitable for its intended purpose, and selling a car that one *knows* is defective.
Did that really need explaining?
“But we’ve more precisely defined liability than that.”
Two approaches to this statement:
1. Yes, and selling a car that one *knows* is defective rises to any reasonable limen for liability.
2. Liability is one thing; morality may be another, if a system is corrupt.
It is immoral to sell a car that one *knows* has a defect that might kill the buyer. An adolescent might take the time to list possible exceptions to this rule—what if the buyer knows the car is defective, et cetera—but none of those exceptions applies here.