You posted your life online, and now you're angry that someone read it.

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21. Lindysalsagal, your post suggests you haven't thought about this,

much less thought it through.

When you walk on any floor surface, you do it with the reasonable expectation that it's fit for foot traffic. If 4 out of 5 people who do then fall due to a dangerously slippery surface, you and they know that it cannot meet regulations and have the expectation that the surface must be replaced and any medical and other expenses resulting from its deficient nature be reimbursed.

I choose this example because I slipped and crashed to the floor the first two times I walked on a newly installed restaurant flooring across from my office, the only 2 such falls in my entire life. Due to my background in commercial property and casualty insurance, I got to explain to the clueless owner his rights and responsibilities in this case (I wasn't the only one who fell on this astonishing floor), and the flooring was covered with temporary carpet that very day--ordered and paid for by his insurer, who then went after the flooring company.

In any case, if society is to have this technology, and we should, society NEEDS to be able to trust it, and the law in this respect was extremely well established before our nation was even born.

This failure of our systems, due to Republicans in congress blocking adequate action for decades, and due to underestimating just how big the threat is, will force the regulations most of us knew all along were needed (if not just how MUCH).