Re: The Blameless Society

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From: David Nicholson
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 03:30

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Gerry Carter wrote:
> So my question is, how does a bartender serving me one more drink wind up
> having my responsibility transferred to him?  It is a ludicrous situation
> brought about by political correctness run amok and is symptomatic of a
> victim mentality.

Gerry:

Have you missed the fact that the drunk is still responsible?  In the
recent notorious Hunt case, for example, the plaintiff was 75%
responsible and the company that threw the party 25% responsible.
It is NOT a case of the drunk being able to avoid ALL responsibility.
In fact, she/he retains the major part of it.  In the bartender (civil)
cases,
I believe it is usually the injured victim who sues, the drunk driver who
is mostly responsible to the victim and the bartender/bar who collected
money for enabling the driver to become drunk who is responsible to
a lesser degree.  Sounds right to me.

David Nicholson

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