When we were little, we all wanted to be some superhero; whether it be Aquaman, Batman, or Superman we have all had some craving to become a hero. Now as a kid, if you were presented with a suit to make you turn into, say Superman, you would wear the suit right? Also, would you try to fly around like Superman does? If you did wear the suit, however, you would have noticed that you were the same person except just wearing a superhero costume.Perhaps as a child you thought that the suit could in fact empower you with the ability of flight, but most, if not all (hopefully), adults realize that those suits are just costumes that enable you to fly in your imagination and not in reality. Nevertheless, there still are people, mostly children would try to fly and end up hurting themselves. Their parents seeing the resulting damage from the fall, sue the company for not having proper warning labels illustrating how one might hurt themselves trying to fly. That is why companies have to be very diligent about their warning labels, however bizarre, abstract or absurd.
Having allergies to nuts is a serious thing; you have to stay away from an abundance of food because it has trace amounts of nuts in them that could render you seriously ill. Now you see food labels that advertise that they contain nuts, but should a bag of PEANUTS, that's right, peanuts, have a warning label that warns a person that there are nuts in a bag of peanuts? Honestly I thought that peanuts did not contain ANY amount of nut related material... There has definitely been a drop in just actually thinking, and using common sense.
I understand why companies put most of these warning labels on their products. It is to protect themselves from massive liability suits that take away large sums of money away from the company. Like, in a suit, where this woman sued Starbucks because she spilled a hot beverage on herself. She knew that the coffee was hot, maybe to the fault of Starbucks, too hot; but nevertheless she knew before hand, it was hot. Also she did nothing to protect herself from getting burnt. She put her coffee between her legs and started driving... She didn't even think about what could happen until it was too late. These cases where the plaintiff's common sense was definitely in question shouldn't reward them with millions of dollars. At most the case should cover the person's medical bills, but in the case of the woman who was burnt by coffee. It was her own fault she was burnt. If you put a cup of hot coffee between your legs with or without a lid, when you drive, you should be aware of the possible consequences.
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Having allergies to nuts is a serious thing; you have to stay away from an abundance of food because it has trace amounts of nuts in them that could render you seriously ill. Now you see food labels that advertise that they contain nuts, but should a bag of PEANUTS, that's right, peanuts, have a warning label that warns a person that there are nuts in a bag of peanuts? Honestly I thought that peanuts did not contain ANY amount of nut related material... There has definitely been a drop in just actually thinking, and using common sense.
I understand why companies put most of these warning labels on their products. It is to protect themselves from massive liability suits that take away large sums of money away from the company. Like, in a suit, where this woman sued Starbucks because she spilled a hot beverage on herself. She knew that the coffee was hot, maybe to the fault of Starbucks, too hot; but nevertheless she knew before hand, it was hot. Also she did nothing to protect herself from getting burnt. She put her coffee between her legs and started driving... She didn't even think about what could happen until it was too late. These cases where the plaintiff's common sense was definitely in question shouldn't reward them with millions of dollars. At most the case should cover the person's medical bills, but in the case of the woman who was burnt by coffee. It was her own fault she was burnt. If you put a cup of hot coffee between your legs with or without a lid, when you drive, you should be aware of the possible consequences.
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