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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
This is the system working.
The right to bring suit is one of our valuable legal rights.
You wouldn't want that right taken away from you, would you?
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Ah, but there's the rub, ART. Too many people are confusing "rights" with "power." Handing out rights in the last few decades was supposed to provide justice, but social structure cannot be divided up like land. I've always been told that rights are the foundation of a free society, but I still don't know what that means.
As I interpret history, the rights that are the foundation of this country are rights AGAINST law and government encroachment. Freedom of speech, property rights, freedom of assembly, etc., were all supposed to be the antidote against laws that impinged on freedoms - not ammunition in personal injuries. Today, rights aren't really rights at all. They are blunt powers masquerading under the name of rights, and are used incorrectly like a sword instead of a shield.
The threat of lawsuits hinging on the legislation and regulation of personal safety still seems to me to be an abuse of the system that American forefathers died to create.