You can't do anything nice

[Henry]

And suddenly it all makes sense! She's a real life version of Kyle's mom!

WhatWhatWhat!?!?!?!

 

[Rel]

Forgive my brief bout of optimism here but I find this whole story to be heartening about The Way the World Works. Notice:

Although the judge did award this woman her medical damages, he gave her none of the ancillary awards that she sought. In other words, she is paid back for the money she had to pay to the hospital but she doesn't come out ahead.

The woman who sued is now shunned by her community for her greed and malice.

The kindness of the girls who made the cookies has been recognized and repaid by the community at large by their collective willingness to pay the fine thus incurred.

The girls and their parents, who have to this point seemed to be very nice, continue to be nice by urging restraint by those who now despise the woman who sued them.


In essence, my belief is that we cannot stop the jerks of the world from being jerks but it seems that most of the time they reap what they sow. Stuff like this comes along once in a while that helps reinforce the idea and I'm glad of that.

 

[GentleGiant]

"After a crumby ending, donated dough rolls in for 2 cookie deliverers"
Oh the humanity!!!
Where do they come up with subheaders like that?

 

[barsoomcore]

Forgive my brief bout of optimism here but I find this whole story to be heartening about The Way the World Works.

Brief bout of optimism forgiven. Unit "Rel" marked for Permanent Adjustment. Report to the nearest Adjustment Center for Permanent Adjustment immediately.

The Way the World Works is the best way. The Computer is the Way. And the World. And the Computer Works.

Unit "Rel", report at once.

 

[Rel]

Brief bout of optimism forgiven. Unit "Rel" marked for Permanent Adjustment.

I'm "Adjusting my Unit" right now, IYKWIMAITYD.

 

[Qlippoth]

The unfortunate part about our legal system is that it has obliterated social Darwinism.

What does that entail, exactly? "Only the popular survive?"

 

[ledded]

Hmm. Umm, Ledded, is there a Cliff's Notes version of your last post?

Err... sorry. Folks that are used to me on these boards know that I sometimes... ramble, a bit.

Short version:

We can't prove or disprove harm incurred to the woman based on the facts we have: we dont have her medical records or even data that shows she had a "reasonable expectation of harm" from people knocking on her door at 10:30pm. All of the anecdotal evidence points to the contrary, but that isnt conclusive. The judge is incompetant if and only if he did not take into effect the two above points, which we do not know if he did or not.

Lawsuits for negligence by a company more intent on making toys is far, far different from what we saw here, as you can start a negligence case for a toy company (etc) with the knowledge that they make money first, and safe product second.

Lawyers often suck in the eyes of non-lawyers, in that many will point at the results of this debacle and say "look, justice was done because the bad lady is getting her privacy violated to the point of her entire life being up-ended" and think that is ok, while pocketing the large amounts of money they made by inflaming and pushing the whole affair along, while convincing themselves that is "ethical". And then wonder why there are so many lawyer jokes.

 

[ledded]

Forgive my brief bout of optimism here but I find this whole story to be heartening about The Way the World Works. Notice:

<snip>

In essence, my belief is that we cannot stop the jerks of the world from being jerks but it seems that most of the time they reap what they sow. Stuff like this comes along once in a while that helps reinforce the idea and I'm glad of that.

Yeah, while that is true and does give ya a small bit of a warm fuzzy to adjust your unit with, what about all the other times where the media doesnt hop on the bandwagon and the little guy gets the shaft?

Personally, I would feel a lot better if people would just exercise a little imaginative social conscience prior to doing such stupid and meaningless things. It would save us all a lot of time, it's really not hard, and they teach you this stuff in 1st grade.

When faced with this situation repeat this mantra : "How would *I* feel if someone did this to me?"

Or more popularly noted for the biblical crowd "Do unto others...".

Yeah, I know. I'm the eternally *stupid* optimist. Or the eternally disappointed optimist. (wait, did I just find a new definition for "realist"?)

I'd much prefer to have your kind of optimism Rel, but unfortunately I seem to be incapable of sustaining it for the length of time it take to click to the next news story .

If Barsoomcore were dictator, those that answered the above questions with obvious moral incompetance or intellectual paucity would have their units adjusted. With a red-hot pipe wrench. And that, as they say, would be that .

 

[MrFilthyIke]

Err... sorry. Folks that are used to me on these boards know that I sometimes... ramble, a bit.

If that's short, and the earlier one is rambling...I'd hate to see the Extended Edition of a ledded post!

 

[Desdichado]

Yeah, while that is true and does give ya a small bit of a warm fuzzy to adjust your unit with, what about all the other times where the media doesnt hop on the bandwagon and the little guy gets the shaft?

Seems an odd situation to ...adjust your unit to, IYKWIMAITYD.