Quote Originally Posted by smokelaw1 View Post
The corporation was warned that they were doing something dangerous (mroe dangerous than just "hot coffee') and they disregarded customer safety for profits. Why should they NOT be held accountable for the damage they cause by this decision. A corporation has the DUTY to not hand out a product more dangerous than a customer ought reasonably believe it to be.
Well, yes, but what's the alternative?
Serving lukewarm coffee to appease the people who want to be insulated from life? Some things in our daily lives have the potential to hurt us. It is our own responsibility to make sure that they don't.

If I buy a hammer and hit on my fingers, the hardware store is not to blame.
Same if the hammer were an axe. It is understood that buy buying the axe, I take responsibility for using it. Come to think of it, it's the same when using a straight razor. If you buy one and cut yourself, you can't hold dovo accountable.

Imo, if you buy coffee, you know it will be hot enough to hurt you. If it then does, it is a bit lame to hold McD accountable. Yes, they were warned that their product was very hot. But that doesn't change the fact that coffee should be like that. They put a number of coffee experts on the stand who testified that indeed, coffee should be that hot. But to no avail.