06-04-2018, 05:22 AM
Not so many lawsuits back then
Exactly right.
If one of these thrill seekers gets injured in any way, he'll get a lawyer who will claim his client wasn't told it was dangerous, or his was told but not in a forceful enough manner that made him realize the severity of the danger, there were no warning signs, or the signs at the checkpoints weren't big enough, or he had to go around the checkpoints to sneak in so didn't see any signs which should have been posted where he sneaked in, other people did it...
Of course, the attorney he hires will need to pass the Hawaii bar, so, jobs for Hawaii.
Paid for by Big Island taxpayers, who probably have enough other expenses already created by the lava flow.
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
Exactly right.
If one of these thrill seekers gets injured in any way, he'll get a lawyer who will claim his client wasn't told it was dangerous, or his was told but not in a forceful enough manner that made him realize the severity of the danger, there were no warning signs, or the signs at the checkpoints weren't big enough, or he had to go around the checkpoints to sneak in so didn't see any signs which should have been posted where he sneaked in, other people did it...
Of course, the attorney he hires will need to pass the Hawaii bar, so, jobs for Hawaii.
Paid for by Big Island taxpayers, who probably have enough other expenses already created by the lava flow.
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves