Too bad nobody requires personal responsibility and common sense of people. We’re on a path of yielding to the idiot, the moron, and the jerks of the world to protect them from themselves. The bleeding heart liberals want everything idiot-proofed. Matches, firearms, cigarettes, automobiles, furniture. What’s next? Hand grenades and poisonous snakes. In the hands of an idiot, everything is dangerous.
Just make ALL furniture out of steel grids and when they sit on it their butts will look like belgian waffles! Won’t burn, etc., etc. Hey, it could happen.
I am as conservative as anybody, but why in the world, if for $5 bucks extra on a $1,000 couch, wouldn’t the manufacturer voluntarily make it fireproof? Are they they that greedy for a buck? I have to come down on the side of the fireproof material; it just makes common sense.
I agree with you, Joe, but what are we really doing? For 100 deaths and 150 injuries a year out of 300,000,000 people seems a bit extravagant, don’t you think?
You are comparing apples and oranges here. Seatbelts and airbags have saved hundreds of thousands (I am not even going to get into the structure and speed of modern-day cars that made safety measures neccesary in the first place), while we are talking about spending a lot of time and money saving a statistical few. Call it cold-hearted, but can we spend more time on something with a purpose and impact?
My only point was that you cant rely on big Corporations to do the right thing for consumers, the market does not always react as we would hope it should.
Sometimes it really does take government. But yea, this may not be one of those cases – That is true, I might agree with you there depending on how much it adds in costs.
Can we really idiot-proof anything? It would be better to just rid the gene pool of those who lack any sense to protect themselves in the first place. Ever see “Jackass”? pretty entertaining to my kids who miss the point and laugh instead….but as far a blaming liberals, who the hell do you think files the lawsuits that make these rulings necessary? Why just about everyone from every political persuasion….just like the NIMBY folks…this has nothing to do with “liberals” making dumb rulings; it has to do with folks who get hurt and want to blame someone. Seems it’s easier to dumb proof things, than to stop some bleeding heart plaintiff’s attorney, who just might be a republican, who wants to make the USA safe for all “real” Americans, from filing a really big lawsuit to stuff his own pockets!
What happens in 5-10-20 years when the chemicals used to make furniture fire proof is found to cause cancer? Will the furniture manufactures be held responsible? Most likely!
Too bad nobody requires personal responsibility and common sense of people. We’re on a path of yielding to the idiot, the moron, and the jerks of the world to protect them from themselves. The bleeding heart liberals want everything idiot-proofed. Matches, firearms, cigarettes, automobiles, furniture. What’s next? Hand grenades and poisonous snakes. In the hands of an idiot, everything is dangerous.
To be fair, there are bleeding heart conservatives, independents and libertarians, too. Stupidity knows no political assocation, it crosses all lines.
I agree with you that trying to idiot-proof the world is pretty much a huge waste of time. Let natural selection do its job.
Just make ALL furniture out of steel grids and when they sit on it their butts will look like belgian waffles! Won’t burn, etc., etc. Hey, it could happen.
I am as conservative as anybody, but why in the world, if for $5 bucks extra on a $1,000 couch, wouldn’t the manufacturer voluntarily make it fireproof? Are they they that greedy for a buck? I have to come down on the side of the fireproof material; it just makes common sense.
I agree with you, Joe, but what are we really doing? For 100 deaths and 150 injuries a year out of 300,000,000 people seems a bit extravagant, don’t you think?
If it was up to you guys cars still wouldnt have seatbelts or airbags. The companies said they were too expensive.
It took bleeding heart Ralph Nader to take care of things. And because of him many lives have been saved.
Are you equating seat belts and air bags with furniture? Sure would save a lot of lives, wouldn’t it?
You are comparing apples and oranges here. Seatbelts and airbags have saved hundreds of thousands (I am not even going to get into the structure and speed of modern-day cars that made safety measures neccesary in the first place), while we are talking about spending a lot of time and money saving a statistical few. Call it cold-hearted, but can we spend more time on something with a purpose and impact?
My only point was that you cant rely on big Corporations to do the right thing for consumers, the market does not always react as we would hope it should.
Sometimes it really does take government. But yea, this may not be one of those cases – That is true, I might agree with you there depending on how much it adds in costs.
Can we really idiot-proof anything? It would be better to just rid the gene pool of those who lack any sense to protect themselves in the first place. Ever see “Jackass”? pretty entertaining to my kids who miss the point and laugh instead….but as far a blaming liberals, who the hell do you think files the lawsuits that make these rulings necessary? Why just about everyone from every political persuasion….just like the NIMBY folks…this has nothing to do with “liberals” making dumb rulings; it has to do with folks who get hurt and want to blame someone. Seems it’s easier to dumb proof things, than to stop some bleeding heart plaintiff’s attorney, who just might be a republican, who wants to make the USA safe for all “real” Americans, from filing a really big lawsuit to stuff his own pockets!
What happens in 5-10-20 years when the chemicals used to make furniture fire proof is found to cause cancer? Will the furniture manufactures be held responsible? Most likely!