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Did anyone catch "Dateline" earlier this week?  They had a segment about
the aging National Weather Service (NWS). One woman lost her husband
in a tornado which the NWS failed to "adequately" warn people of. She
said the "NWS was absolutely negligent in the death of my husband."

Here, the woman has moved the responsibility for accident from her
husband (for failing to watch the weather) to the government. And
why not?  Every time we turn around, our benevolent government is trying
to "protect" us from our own mistakes (i.e. seat belt law, helmet law,
out of bounds laws, etc. etc.). But in this case, the government said
the service was adequate for the current state of the system.

I think government "safety" policy and quick-to-sue-since-it-wasn't-
my-fault mentality of the general populus escalate each other. Maybe
to solve the problem, both sides need to be addressed. If government
gave us more responsibility, maybe we would take more responsibility.

$.02,

-Chris

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