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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: haqihana who wrote (154913)6/22/2001 4:26:37 PM
From: ThirdEye  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
hagi, you are echoing the typical response from the right on the question of personal responsibility. Everyone should take responsibility for their own actions. Fair enough. Like individuals, "producers" or corporations are people as well. And producers regularly engage in advertising practices, enticements that they are loath to take responsibility for.

It's not against the law to produce cars or pools or cigarettes or to offer credit cards. But the car manufacturers do actually attempt to make the cars safe for standard use. Cigarette manufacturers never did, to my knowledge. In fact they denied cigarettes were harmful for many years and resisted the scientific evidence for years. If a car manufacturer was found to know about a safety defect and didn't do anything to correct it, they should be held accountable. Alcoholic beverage producers regularly include cautions about driving in their ads now. Great. But credit card companies shove offers in front of young people or continue to extend credit to bad risks and then want legislative relief from the bankruptcy situations that they knowingly helped create. Not right. All guns should not be outlawed, but if manufacturers continue to resist calls for safer products, such as a trigger locks, they should be held accountable for producing an unsafe product.
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