Originally Posted by JHM2K
While I agree the hypothetical scenario was a bit extreme, there's always that "what-if".
I would MUCH rather have someone toss out a crazy hypothetical, by virtue of brainstorming, than wait for someone to try to sue a great guy like rcompart through a crazy lawsuit because a 'freak accident' happened.
I'm sure no one ever thought a child would use a hairdryer as a bathtub submarine, but now we have warning labels affixed to every cord. Warning labels are simply printed tombstones advertising the 'freak accident' that some unfortunate soul had in the past. Which, at one time, was probably unthinkable.
Think about it... we have federal warnings on mattresses. How deadly can those things be?
Give dwight some wiggle-room. He knows his stuff. And he was simply trying to consider all worst-case scenarios for the OP.
I call that looking out for one-another, if you ask me.
I personally am a firm believer of letting the dumb ones kill themselves off. You know why you didn't see very many idiots around that were older than 20 back in the day? It's because they killed themselves off and those that didn't were just lucky but they were few and far between back then. Now, we have all these things to protect them so they can grow up and breed with other idiots and make more little idiots. This isn't me saying though that you shouldn't protect your youngsters but when little Timmy tries for the fourteenth time to stick a fork into an outlet, let him do it for god sake so he's not doing other stupid sh*t when he's 30+.
