Once upon a time in this nation, we believed that if someone stuck their finger in an electric outlet they deserved to get shocked for being dumb enough to stick their finger in the outlet. We also believed that the consequences of their action would serve as a lesson to them and to others.
Today though, our nanny state, which neither believes that anyone should ever have to suffer the consequences of their actions nor should there be any lessons, would like to charge the electric outlet for causing harm to the fool who stuck his finger in it. But for obvious reasons, they can't bring charges against it, so they bring charges against the electric company and the makers of electric outlets. All of this just goes to show how disconnected from reality America has become.
Or as I like to put it: "We used to try to worldproof the child. Now we try to childproof the world."