Source : http://www.ketv.com/State-Sen-Ernie-Chambers-Sues-God/-/9675214/10211380/-/octyom/-/index.html
I hate people, I honestly do. I hate people with the passion of a thousand burning suns. It's so idiotic to sue someone over something so . . . stupid. If you're not hurt, you're not hurt. If you are hurt, learn to watch where you're walking. Let me know when someone purposely makes you trip, or have their animal attack you, or hit you with a vehicle. If you don't know how to walk, that's your fault. I might sound mean, but I don't care. Money grubbing people like to leech off of others. People who spend there life working to make a living. And they expect to get some of the money because they couldn't lift their foot a tad bit higher, or stay the **** away from a growling dog, etc. If I was a judge, I'd look at 'em and laugh in their face. That's complete and utter nonsense.
I should note this is a very American thing to so, to sue everything and anything. It's idiotic, and worst, detrimental to all people within the society, it creates a leak of justice, and demeans the work of police officers. I ignore every single one of these. And suggest that every court does too.
Right, cause all corruption comes straight from America. You do realize that this particular article isn't coming from America, right? Instead of saying "that's a very American thing to do" every time something about corruption or a faulty system comes up, why not say "that's a very human thing to do"? Lets not pretend that America is the only place on Earth with corrupt officials and whatnot, this happens everywhere. I'm honestly pretty insulted by this.
In terms of legal cases, the earliest examples I've seen used of the insanity plea and sueing have come from the American law system. I can probably say as an estimate or guess, that over 50% of the lawsuits in the world come from America. It's a guess, of course, but I can almost guarantee it's true, hell, the figures might be more. The world is becoming Americanised, Britain especially since the 80s I believe. We now do American things, watch American shows, eat American food, wear American clothing. The world has picked up a lot of cultural tendencies because they choose to. Britain at one point became very French, as we spoke it, wrote it, dressed in it, and emulated it as something cool and current to do in our culture. It's the way of the world, fact, that we share cultures the more closely linked we become as a species. And to some, having afternoon tea with crumpets is a very 'British' thing to do, or arranged marriages a very Asian thing to do, or that everything is bigger in Texas. It's called cultural difference, we are not one pure copy paste race living with the same widely held beliefs or thoughts as others, we have diversity. Sometimes they are derogatory, or stereotypical, but it doesn't necessarily mean they're false or wrong. British people love tea, a great deal more than most countries. Asia still has a high proportionate rate of arranged marriages from Korea to India than other places in the world. More cases of law suits come from America than other countries. It's not false, it's just true.
I'm sorry, I hate America with a burning passion, but this is just rude. Basically, you're stereotyping America, right? Because anything and everything that is or ever has been bad has started in America? Look, I don't care if America was never even discovered, all this stuff would've still happened eventually. Sure, America may have a higher rate, but look at the size of the country. If you want to play it like that, you should be looking at continents instead of countries. America isn't just America. There is Canada, North America, Mexico, and the countries of South America (going from north to south). Just generally lumping everyone together as "America" isn't accurate. Perhaps if you want to criticize "America" you could narrow it down a little bit. That fifty percent is broken up between several countries i'm sure. If you're referring to the United States of America, then you might do well to explain that, rather than just "America." And here I was thinking that Americans were the only ones who lumped in entire continents together.
No? I explained already why it's an American thing. My explanation was based more so in facts then general opinion, and I was being derogatory I was simply stating it's validity. It comes from America and is used by America more frequently then others, making it an American thing to do. And I'm encompassing purely the United States of America in this, otherwise I would've stated North America for the continent. Most Americans call the United States, America, so I do to. I have been Americanised into this because I've watched a lot of American TV since I was young. I've never said that lawsuits we're 'evil' I said "It's idiotic, and worst, detrimental to all people within the society, it creates a leak of justice, and demeans the work of police officers." I was referring to individuals who use these loops in the law to get away with stuff, not countries as a whole . Most of you probably don't know the abuse our super injunction laws got, where the identity of those involved in a case are protected of their identity and anyone who reveals it is up for prosecution. Footballers in this country bought these, effectively, to keep their cheating names out of the papers, yet these types of laws we're suppose to protect victims of rape and other violent cases. Eventually, every individual in the country knew the identities of the footballers and many people posted it against said footballer's twitter account. He wanted them all to be prosecuted and arrested, yet arresting and prosecuting 10,000 people for this kind of crime was seen as ridiculous by the courts, and eventually their super injunctions ere revoked. If I wanted to criticise America, I'd have plenty to go on, however for once I don't care to. Simply stating facts of the matter. And you hate too many things with a burning passion. Relax a bit more, don't take this so harshly, please.
It's not just the US that I don't like being "critiqued" I don't like to see anyone generalize an opinion for an entire nation. Basically stereotyping. I was referring to a common stereotype that most people assume that the US is 'evil incarnate.' It may be bad in the US, but the same goes for the rest of the world. About the only place you won't get any of this is a private island. Even then i'm sure you'll catch some of the overdraft. I won't lie, the US alone is chock full of money grubbing wicked individuals. But there are people like that all over. As for the America=USA thing, I never really understood that. There's north and south America. America isn't even the correct name to be used when referring to the USA. United States of America. The correct usage should be "United States" or "US." I'm not seeing the facts though. You yourself said it was an "estimate" on how much percent. That's not fact. And maybe you did see the earliest record coming from the US for a frivolous law suit. Do you know how many frivolous law suits weren't on record? I don't think either of the two statements could be considered a "fact." Both of them are "guesstimations" at best. I'm not taking this "harshly" in that it's my home country, i'm taking it "harshly" in that you've provided no proof or evidence to back your claims. I'm not mad, so much as I am agitated. Whenever I see a statement made like this, be it to the US or anywhere/anything, it confuses me as to why there are no actual records given to back them. If you could come up with a legitimate status chart, saying that the US holds (roughly) 50% of the worlds frivolous law suit claims and the earliest one was made in the US, then I wouldn't be mad. If it was a legitimate fact, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest. I don't want to come off as some "Murican" who just wants to defend his nation from insults, because I don't. I know that here in the US we have our fair share of idiotic events taking place. In fact, Mister Snicket would do well to come out with a new book, "A Series of Idiotic Events." Like I said though, it's just not having the facts actually laid out with evidence to support that gets me.
http://abovethelaw.com/2012/07/info...iousness-statistics-that-will-make-you-angry/ That link does a good job at explaining why the US are seen as a sue-happy nation in general. However I' m having a hard time finding frivolous lawsuits statistics about my own country to compare. That' s probably because, to my knowledge, we don' t even have a word for them. Fork, if you' re reading this ... I tried the UK but came up empty handed again.
It think this is evidence enough to say we all have a degree of stereotyping, which isn't necessarily a bad or a wrong thing to think with. Stereotypes are based off of some truths, not all are lies. Pat and myself have looked and found nothing on other countries. His link shows there seems to be a reason for this because of the fundamentals of the American justice system, which I mentioned before. And I'm admitting I have no facts, I'm not claiming that my estimate is based on quantifiable data, but purely from watching and reading news media in British and US capacities. I'm also not denying that other countries do this, this very case is obvious of this. Yet I stand by my points. And before this starts getting off topic....
People are abusing the health and safety now just to squeeze money out of everyone they can. I can see it as a legitimate case but I hope it fails because honestly, bumping your leg and wrist isn't something to sue someone about. If she'd broken both legs and needed to be on crutches for months then yeah, I can understand that but I don't think it's even the guys fault. Some people! They don't empathise, he's just been robbed, he doesn't have the money to give you- no pity? It's honestly like "I accidently tripped over on purpose... got £5000 and took a holiday". Not every case, but this one is.
I think, if anything, what we should take from the conflict in this thread is how the US is perceived. We may defend it, and some of those assumptions may be incorrect, but this is how the rest of the world sees the US. Just as we might assume the French are all dirty socialists and the English all have awful teeth, other countries have preconceived notions about us. Personally I think the US is very sue-happy. I don't really know why, but it's not the only part of our government that people exploit for personal profit.
