Since we have collectively abrogated our individual responsibilities to take care of ourselves, and have given those responsibilities over to the Government with nary a whimper of protest, and since the Government has taken the opportunity to issue laws, regulations and directives to regulate the conduct of our lives, I hereby assert that the Government is responsible to reimburse us for any losses occasioned by their failure to regulate.
If, therefore, we die of cancer that was caused by the smoking and inhaling of tobacco products, and the Government has allowed such products to be sold, the Government should compensate our families for the loss of our life.
If an assailant, using a gun that was not registered, shoots us and causes bodily harm, the Government should be liable for our hospital and medical costs because they failed to remove all illegal guns from the streets.
If we buy a cup of coffee and burn ourselves because the coffee is too hot, the Government is responsible for not testing the temperature of the coffee before it was sold.
Similar examples of Government liability are not necessary to make the point. By taking it upon itself to insert its regulatory self into the daily conduct of the many varied aspects of our lives, conduct which has traditionally been the responsibility of the individual, the Government thereby places itself legally responsible for the aspects of our lives that it fails to regulate.
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