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How do they do it in other countries? Is the US the only country in the world that protects their citizens rights? I'm pretty sure that's not true. However, I
by jennyyang 6y ago
How do they do it in other countries? Is the US the only country in the world that protects their citizens rights? I'm pretty sure that's not true.
However, I do think the US is the only country that enforces laws by "trial by ambulance chasers". Too many ambulance chasers make good money bullying small companies, either through patent laws, minor violations of laws, etc.
- CogitoCogito 6y agoThere’s upsides and downsides to both systems. Class actions have the advantage of enforcing rights as long as there is a lot of money involved regardless of whether regulators want to pursue the issue. In other systems e.g. onbudsmen will decide to take on issues or not, but you might not have much control yourself. I guess many systems are more of a mix rather than one extreme. Regardless, no one system is best.
- jennyyang 6y agoMaybe no one system is best, but the US system is definitely the worst. So many things about our lives are dictated by precedents set by ridiculous law suits, we don't see it anymore. I went on a bicycle tour in Italy, and the owner was an American. We paid our money and took the bikes. I asked the owner if we had to fill out any release forms, and he said "You only have to do that stupid shit in the US. Here in Italy, we treat adults like adults." The realization of how intertwined our lives had become with the results of all these lawsuits shocked me. It is truly a slippery slope created by lawyers and we are now at the bottom of this slippery slope.
- watwut 6y agoThey do more regulation up front. In US, instead the system assumes that people will sue each other and that litigation is how details are worked out and creates precedence.