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Once upon a time a company, we will call it "Ford" decided to bring a car to market at under $2000 retail. It comes up with a car, we will call the "Pinto" at $1995. However it was discovered (prior to marketing the car) that there was concern about the potential for fires resulting from rear collisions of a particular type.

Further study revealed that for a small additional cost, the car could be made a little more safe. And for a couple of hundred or so more dollars, it could be made significantly more safe from fires caused by that type of collision. However after weighing the costs against the costs of compensating those who would be burned by not adopting the safer methods, it was determined that the unsafe car would bring more profits.

When you have gutted the civil justice system and a company can calculate whether its negligence or intentional disregard for the lives of others is profitable, don't complain when you or a loved one suffer as a result.

And who is more despicable? The attorney that helps his clients hold the responsible party fully accountable, or the company that increases its profits on the knowing decision that their customers may be horribly burned?

Who would argue against someone who is TRULY harmed by another’s negligence being compensated? But the legal profession is filled with people like John Edwards who got rich based on fraudulent lawsuits and shakedowns that we ALL have to pay for. His client supposedly suffered brain damage because she didn’t get c-sectioned in time. Now with c-sections being way more common, CP should be all but gone. But there hasn’t been any change in the incidence. It was a garbage lawsuit, brought by grieving parents and used by a POS like Edwards to extract $ for himself. All based on lies.

Re: Your example of the Ford Pinto. There's actually a far more current example of this sort of thing. There's this country called China, and they've got an economic system that's best described as a cross between communism and fascism (but mostly communism). Either way, the government profits through increased profit. So it simply doesn't make sense for them to bother with safety concerns. The only important thing for them is the profit margin, because as profit grows, the government is strengthened.

Mark