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- From: cookc@aix.rpi.edu (rocker)
- Subject: Re: Jim Kalb is NOT crazy, just confused?
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:29:03 GMT
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- jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes:
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- >wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
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- >>The main purpose of picking up china is to see if it is worthy of
- >>purchase, or to aid in identification. You make it sound as if the
- >>purpose was to break it by way of handling. Because it is an object
- >>which someone else owns, then you are responsible for it while in your
- >>care. It is not because dammage is a possible consequence that the
- >>viewer is held responsible...
-
- >My point was that even though the purpose is just as you say, if it
- >breaks the customer is held responsible.
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- Look, I don't know what china shops _you_ go to, but in the ones _I_'ve
- been in the customer is NOT required to pay for breakage.
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- The shops have insurance to cover such situations.
-
- So tell me, do you have any moral objection to the shops carrying
- insurance, since it exempts people from the "natural consequences
- of their actions"?
-
- > Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
-
- -rocker
-