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Article #38497Re: The Blameless Society
From: Carter Lee
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:01
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 21:01
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David Nicholson wrote: > > 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. Not to me. The bartender is simply a business man selling a product. How that product is used is not his responsibility. That is my opinion and yes I know that in some jurisdictions the law says otherwise. It sounds to me like a law created by lawyers to keep themselves in business. Carter
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