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[Cadaverous Pallor]

There are few concepts I hate more than "liability". I know it's pointless to fight it, but I still feel the rising tide of liability has tied our hands and made small, everyday injustices more common. The employment issues are a good example.

Don't worry, GD has talked to me about this in very plain, sensible terms a million times and I still don't like it.

I wonder how much of this stuff is prevalent in other countries.

Things Jen does not like that aren't going away any time soon:

Liability issues
Lobbyists
Logrolling

I don't know what it is about the letter L. Again, no need to convince me these are necessary, I know, I know, and I hate hate hate it.

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[Alex]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

There are few concepts I hate more than "liability".

Who are you blaming for this hated thing, though? Large companies that get sued dozens of times per day and so have a certain motivation to just avoid the more obvious stupid suits that could be brought or the people who file stupid lawsuits all of the time?

But I'm curious, if one of your library patrons came in saying "I have errands to run and can't take my turtle here with me. Would you hold him? I promise my husband will be along to pick him up before too long" would you really say "Sure, no problem, I'll just put that guy in the back here I'm sure it'll all work out."