by Kenneth Campbell >CB: Another infamous case of this was the exploding Pinto of Ford.
Thanks, CB. That was the 70s. May not apply to the original post I made, in the time frame... but same principle. Regardless... The notion that "lives have worth based upon economic evaluation" is hated amongst normal working North Americans. I think there is, in that, a chink in the armor that is worth a bit more than mere postings about the conditions in South America. It is not to diminish the rest of the world... more to recognize what is happening here. Here. Talk about your dialectical contradictions in the whole... Ken. ^^^^^^ Yes, the whole moral thing of placing monetary value on human life stares every law student in the face in torts class. You are probably aware that many juries ( composed largely on North American workers) have given such high awards often that the rightwing has been carrying out tort "reform" for a while, whereby caps are put on the amounts. A significant part of the leftwing bar in Michigan, National Lawyers Guilders, have had their practices substantially done away with by recent tort "deform" in Michigan. Left wing lawyers ( Maurice Sugar and others) played a big role in developing products liability law.
