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A colleague of mine has lived in the USA for years. When visiting the local office here he commented, paraphrased "the craziest thing there is that at any given
by Gravityloss 2y ago
A colleague of mine has lived in the USA for years. When visiting the local office here he commented, paraphrased "the craziest thing there is that at any given time you can make a tiny mistake, and the rest of your life is messed up completely". I think ruining random individuals' lives is not a sign of a good legal system. There are some other systems that try to avoid that more, though of course that still happens, and there are some things to be discussed on what kind of contracts are legal etc. There are of course different legal traditions in the world and so on too, in the bigger picture, but still, it seems so disastrous to the individual looking from outside.
- spywaregorilla 2y agoFor example, killing someone by ignoring their allergies? I find it very odd that someone would live in the US for years and have that be their main takeaway.
- wang_li 2y agoIt’s more interesting that, I’m assuming, they categorize mistakes by the nature of the error and not the results of the error. Not checking your blind spot on an empty road is a tiny mistake. Not checking your blind spot causing a bus driver to swerve to avoid a collision, but the swerve resulted in the bus crashing into a petrol truck leading to a massive fire and dozens of dead school children is not a tiny mistake.
- phreack 2y agoI think a good faith interpretation is that the "mistake" was having accepted the terms of use of Disney+. Not that it was really a mistake, the system is just rigged and they'd have found another argument if not this one.
- naikrovek 2y agoour legal system was built with the assumptions that there would never be any actively malevolent attorneys representing clients, or actively malevolent judges, assumptions that are clearly very wrong. and now we have a problem, because until those individuals have a very long, very provable track record of malevolence, there is little that can be done to combat them.