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> My point is I don't think McDonalds needs to be legally dissuaded from serving hot coffee in the first place "Willfully causing injury in this way should not
by dragonwriter 1y ago
> My point is I don't think McDonalds needs to be legally dissuaded from serving hot coffee in the first place
"Willfully causing injury in this way should not be a wrong at all" is a very different argument than "the damage award was inappropriate for willfully causing injury in this way", so it would help if you would not disguise your argument for the former positions as one for the latter position if you want to have a productive exchange.
- Ajedi32 1y agoThere was certainly no willfulness involved in this situation, unless you mean to say they willfully made the coffee hot. My argument is that both of those things are true. Willfully serving hot coffee is not wrong at all, and a punitive damage award is highly inappropriate for unwillfully contributing to the harm caused by woman spilling it on herself.