[lbo-talk] Excessive Lawsuits, Gay Rights, Tort Reform,

[Michael Dawson]

>But I am absolutely against the litigeousness that sqanders resources,
fails to meet 
victim's needs in an adequate or consistent way, and that 
drives bad practices because professionals try to avoid litigation 
rather than getting on with doing their jobs as well as they can. 
It's all so very neo-liberal - 'there's a contract between the 
service provider and the service user. If the service user 
suffers, then the courts should arbitrate and put a price tag 
on that suffering.'


>There is a simple pragmatic issue at the heart of this: we 
need to hold professionals and businesses to account for their 
actions, and we need to ensure that people who suffer misfortunes 
are provided with the money to enjoy as full a life as possible. 
Trying to turn this into a question of monetary fairness is 
surreal, especially for anyone on the left.

Crap and more crap.  In your first paragraph, you're tilting at non-existent
windmills.  No professionals avoid good practice for fear of being sued.
Just the opposite.  What are you trying to say?  That cancer would be cured
by now, if only we unshackled the free market?  Bullshit.

And refusing to put a price tag on these things, because someday we'll get
beyond pricetags?  That's doing the right's work for it.  Now I know why you
call yourself a communist banker.  The worst of both worlds...