06-04-2018, 05:51 AM
With matters like dangerous surf or lava, authorities simply have to make a reasonable effort to warn of the danger.
On Maui a decade or two ago, a swimmer saw a "Dangerous Surf" sign. He went in anyway and was injured. His lawyer claimed the sign weasn't big enough, and if it had been bigger, his client would have realized the surf was more dangerous than a smaller sign implied.
I believe the settlement was for $2 million.
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
On Maui a decade or two ago, a swimmer saw a "Dangerous Surf" sign. He went in anyway and was injured. His lawyer claimed the sign weasn't big enough, and if it had been bigger, his client would have realized the surf was more dangerous than a smaller sign implied.
I believe the settlement was for $2 million.
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
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