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Merlin1047 said:So far everyone who has argued in favor of the verdict overlooks the aspect of personal responsibility. They gloss over or ignore the fact that a person has a duty to use a product in the manner intended.
If I go out and buy a quart of Jim Beam, I cannot sue the distiller for the hangover or for the fact that I broke my arm when I fell out of the chandelier on which I was swinging.
Likewise, this woman puts a cup of coffee - that she KNOWS is hot - between her legs. Then she spills it. Somehow the resulting injury has become the fault of the product and the product's vendor. It puzzles me how anyone can reach such a conclusion. Had the cup leaked, had the bottom fallen out of it, had a McDonald's employee spilled it on her, had she been hit by a McDonald's delivery truck and that caused the spill then I would agree that she should be compensated.
Coffee is SUPPOSED to be hot enough to scald. When your purchase it, you're SUPPOSED to be competent enough to handle the product without causing injury to yourself.
Perhaps the day is coming when we will all have to sign a waiver to purchase any food product whose temperature is higher than 98.6 degrees.
Ok, so you're a tad more polite than I am.. I prefer to call a fucking idiot a fucking idiot.