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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:42:04 GMT
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:35:43 GMT, "James Brown"
<galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote:

Also, I don't think individuals have (in the general case) enough resources
for personal liability to be feasable/sufficient.  An example of this occured
recently in Alberta - a number of people were infected with Hepatitis C from
improperly screened blood.  With the people involved getting (IMHO) a
reasonable settlement, the sheer number of people made the settlement HUGE(1)
- well beyond the means of the vast majority of company officers/gov't
officials.

As another example, look at the people that AIDS from blood
transfusions, while there were already good indications that HIV was
transmitted through blood-contact ("it hasn't been proven yet that HIV
causes AIDS!" (which is still true)), and there were tests already.

Several hundred people in the netherlands were affected. What value a
human life?

It'll certainly be beyond the resources of any individual person or
eben an entire board of directors' worth of them.

Jasper



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(...) In the interests of not repeating myself: (URL) I don't think individuals have (in the general case) enough resources for personal liability to be feasable/sufficient. An example of this occured recently in Alberta - a number of people were (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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