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NEGLIGENCE
Posted by hokamp76 • 7/05/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Common Sense, everyone, negligence, politics
Should people who are NEGLIGENT pay $$$ to the source that helps them rectify a wrong? Example: Someone being told not to do something and the person does it anyway, such as driving through water on a highway. The person almost drowns. A helicopter shows up. The person is rescued. Bottom-line: It cost $25,000 to rescue the person. Where does the $$$ come from? Our pockets!
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Should those who were "negligent" enough to set up a debt based money system in the US in 1913 pay for having since devalued the $ by 95 per cent? No small change.
inflation.us/videos.html-
Asset bubbles ultimately lead to severe market corrections. My question has to do with individual negligence - short-term. Your post is associated with more than one person. As a result, long term consequences, whether they be good or bad.
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Indeed, it is not quite of the same order.
Yet our pockets have been almost emptied by this "negligence", and we will only stop being shaken hanging upside down when the last penny hath dropped.
As to your question, I think a measured approach is probably best.
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- I don't know where you live but I live in Canada. Here people who are into extreme sports and who for example, ski or snowboard or dive off cliffs in areas that are posted as being "out-of-bounds - access prohibited" are rescued, and then they are billed for the full cost of the rescue for defying common sense and signage that stated access was prohibited. On top of that they are banned from skiing or snowboarding and or diving and swimming at such sites ever again.
However, if you are referring to American politics and the bailouts, then I suggest that you contact your elected representatives and share your POV with them. Because sharing it means you are choosing the least effective means possible for securing legislated changes to your system of governance.-
Oops! I missed typing some words in my last sentence above. It should have read:
Because sharing it here, on this social forum provided for a diverse community of bloggers from all over the world, means you are choosing the least effective means possible for securing legislated changes to your own system of governance. -
That was authentically besides the point.
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"Defying common sense" - that's what I was after. Good thinkin'. I have no interest in those earthlings in our Congress. I'm refering to the average person in our Society who "defy common sense" and make us pay for their negligence from day to day, week to week and year to year.
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- I wasn't exactly sure what you were getting at. You're welcome.
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I completely agree with you, but the only thing is that its the same thing as Time Thief said, I thought they were billed! I have never heard of someone that had all that done and not be billed for it.-
Time Thief lives in Canada. Different laws than in the U.S.
Thanks for answering, my friend.
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Sometimes we do. In Pennsylvania, since we are a commonwealth negligence almost always gets you billed. The only issue with it is how many people would file bankruptcy to avoid it since most of the billable offenses are large amounts -
It definitely makes sense to bill a person for the cost of their negligence, but like EndlesslySheSaid said, that is usually impossible. Bottom line, either we take on the cost of their negligence, or we let them drown? A posthumous Darwin Award to console the grieving family?
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Quite a few states require you to pay for your own rescue if it is a result of your own negligence.
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Hmmm! Can you name the States? I live in Illinois.
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all commonwealth states do: Kentucky, Massacussetts, Virginia & Pennsylvania.
Florida, Nevada and Maryland also bill. -
A former coworker of mine said Arizona does as well.
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