WARNING LABELS - Political Forum

CHUQ · #1 (**permalink**) 11-17-2006, 06:04 AM

Does this really do any good in prev enting people from harming themselves? Like booze labels and the warnings--they should "consumption of alc ohol could cause pregnacy or at leaast extreme stupidity"

And if you are warned avbout the health probs of a product for 30 yrs how can you sue and win? So if I slam down a bunch of tequila and my liver explodes, I can then sue the maker for causing my health probsd. Right?

superbug · #2 (**permalink**) 11-17-2006, 08:13 AM

Stranger things have happened. Can't say I read all warning labels my self.

CHUQ · #3 (**permalink**) 11-17-2006, 12:44 PM

My question is, if the labels are there, whether you read them or not, and you become ill, how can you sue and win?

superbug · #4 (**permalink**) 11-17-2006, 12:48 PM

Because there are things that happen in life that just aren't right. That's the only answer I can come up with.

emptypepsi · #5 (**permalink**) 11-17-2006, 12:54 PM

If your liver "exploded", you wouldn't come close to living long enough to make it to a lawyer's office.

Having labels on products that are documented as producing unwanted and serious health risks sound foolhardy, and I do laugh at them(as I don't smoke, drink or do other drugs), but in today's society they are only rational choice to provide for general education. How? Seeing as we cannot logically ban all things that could pose a health risk (millions of things would be banned then), people are not seeking this information on their own, and obviously common sense WRT health is not being taught in the home anymore.

It doesn't hurt anybody and takes up a little less room for the advertising of the crap they're selling. Education does not hurt you, it's what is done with it that can hurt you or someone else. WRT it being there and not reading it, Im with superbug. I really hate this term, but "shit does happen". It would then be the duty of another citizen or citizens to not make the same mistake. You can't stop people from learning nor making mistakes, but you can unclog a lot of the BS in courts with a safeguard like warning labels (at least until society decides to start becoming educated again).

CHUQ · #6 (**permalink**) 11-18-2006, 04:34 AM

Your family would and they would smell blood and go for the jugular.

CHUQ · #7 (**permalink**) 11-18-2006, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by emptypepsi

If your liver "exploded", you wouldn't come close to living long enough to make it to a lawyer's office.

Having labels on products that are documented as producing unwanted and serious health risks sound foolhardy, and I do laugh at them(as I don't smoke, drink or do other drugs), but in today's society they are only rational choice to provide for general education. How? Seeing as we cannot logically ban all things that could pose a health risk (millions of things would be banned then), people are not seeking this information on their own, and obviously common sense WRT health is not being taught in the home anymore.

It doesn't hurt anybody and takes up a little less room for the advertising of the crap they're selling. Education does not hurt you, it's what is done with it that can hurt you or someone else. WRT it being there and not reading it, Im with superbug. I really hate this term, but "shit does happen". It would then be the duty of another citizen or citizens to not make the same mistake. You can't stop people from learning nor making mistakes, but you can unclog a lot of the BS in courts with a safeguard like warning labels (at least until society decides to start becoming educated again).

It still dores not explain how you can be warned of health risks for 30 yrs and then when you become ill sue and win. Americans want someone else to pay for their stupidity.