Reply #37: Special rights for fast food purveyors

[depakid]

I expect hypocrisy and foolery from Republicans, but DU'rs on these threads never cease to amaze me.

Aside from not understanding the legal theories (many of which have little to do with people voluntarily walking into McDonalds every day) or the practical reality that there have been how many? lawsuits against fast food vendors- people here still seem to want to grant abusive (and ight wing) corporations blanket immunity that other businesses don't have. Yet.

I think it must be related to sort of a learned helplessness thing, where people make excuses for and protect their abusers from the ordinary consequences of their behavior. Why or example, should McDonalds be immune from a false advertising claim or from products liability? Other businesses aren't (although they sure as hell will be clamoring for it once the sleeze food industry gets its exemption).

And I suspect that's the real motivation here- to sucker otherwise reasonable people onto a slippery slope