[dayglored]

> ...if someone would have drowned in his area while he was saving the other guy, I guarantee his company would have been sued.

Precisely. And therein lies the reason the lawyers required the restriction, and set up the moral dilemma for the lifeguard.

[umbagi]

...if someone would have drowned in his area while he was saving the other guy, I guarantee his company would have been sued.

Precisely. And therein lies the reason the lawyers required the restriction, and set up the moral dilemma for the lifeguard.

And the moral dilemma was precisely why I quit practicing law and took up software engineering nearly twenty years ago now. I began with grandiose ideas of "Truth, Justice, and the American Way," and even managed to hold on to them through law school.

I always revered the "Rule of Law" and the Constitution. But I left the practice and the bench when I found myself grieving their demise while these scum-suckers bled every "deep pocket" dry and freed so many that shouldn't soil our society, and there wasn't much left that I could do about it.

We lost this one a long time ago.