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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 18 Jan 2000 20:47:30 GMT
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Richard Franks wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
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> > If, in addition to whatever
> > the company could be sued for, the president, CEO, board of directors,
> > and potentially stock holders could be held jointly and severally
> > liable, companies would never hurt people in ways that could come back
> > to haunt them.
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> Does that responsibility follow them from job to job too? What about when
> they've retired? If the answer is 'no' to either of them, then I don't • think
> that will work.
For things done while they were in power, sure. Although I'm not sure how
statute of limitations should play in, though the only things which should
have a statute of limitations are things for which the effect is relatively
minor and temporary (i.e. if you wait 5 years to sue over the loss of a
single days work back then, sorry, on the other hand, if 20 years down the
line, science is finally able to identify that the chemical that company X
spilled was the cause of 100 deaths, the officers of company X (at that
time) should be held responsible, the company itself should also be held
responsible).
Frank
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| (...) Ack! I don't like that. I'm a strong supporter of the idea of personal liability, but that ranks as an accident, if I understand you. We believe (don't we?) that the herb, rosemary is safe, so we dispose of it willy nilly. Twenty years from (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Why should they be responsible if there were no way company X could reasonably have known chemical X was lethal? That's just random killing.[1] Jasper [1] Of careers, and possibly the people affected as well, as a direct consequence. (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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