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To: Ilaine who wrote (31853)	7/14/1999 12:21:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I'm not singling out, or even targeting, the attorney(s) for excoriation here. The attorneys didn't start this, did they? They're being hired by whoever saw fit to go for 5 very big ones on the corporate tab. It's the whoever I think is being unethical (or at least disingenuous) here. I mean for $5B every single 73 Malibu still running could have been recalled and junked. Maybe I'm venting cuz of the excesses I'm recently seeing under the rubric of product liability. It's becoming a political battleground. Guns and smokes are being branded "defective" products. Seems to me they work just fine. As for public advocacy groups - it's a lot of work to sort the wheat from the chaff, and there sure is chaff. Like the Sierra Club trying to tell us that all chlorine-containing materials should be banned. A small subset of chlorinated chemicals has become notorious in the past 20 years for being environmentally distributed poisons, and that is surely something to treat with gravitry, but when a public advocacy group wants to ban ALL chlorinates cuz they're scared of Chemicals, otherwise levelheaded intelligent consumers listen. Who knows what unfounded prejudices I'm internalizing from advocacy messages I hear. Understand that I am not laying this at the feet of the legal profession. Not all of it anyway. Legislators and judges are in the hot seat on this one imo.