A dash of Social Darwinism never hurt anyone.

Shouldn't class action lawsuits be limited to situations where people are really unknowingly being harmed by corporations? Like when drinking water is being illegally polluted or when people are held in an airplane on the tarmac for 5 hours without food, water or fresh air because an airline couldn't get a gate for the plane to dock in.

This suit against Apple regarding the iPod volume is on the same level as the smoking class action lawsuits of the nineties. When I heard that people were suing Philip Morris for damages I said, "If you don't know that smoking is bad for you then you've been under a rock for the past 15 years." Now if you filed a lawsuit in the early 80s or seventies when doctors were doing cigarette commercials touting the benefits of smoking and there was no surgeon general's warning then I'd understand. However there was so much anti-smoking information when these lawsuits came to court it seemed absurd that the people filing could say "we didn't know smoking was going to give us lung cancer."

A similar situation happened in Ft. Worth a couple of years ago at the Ft. Worth water gardens. A group of young children, accompanied by adults, thought it might be a good idea to swim in the main area of the water gardens which is basically a very large fountain. There were signs posted clearly stating "DO NOT SWIM." They neglected the signs and a couple of the kids died, sucked under by the current produced by the powerful pumps used to make the awesome display of water possible. Now the water gardens lay drained and surrounded by a chain link fence and unable to be appreciated anymore. A beautiful creation by Philip Jonson that existed for many years without any incident was ruined by a handful of people. I know its terrible that people died but one must accept responsibility for their own actions.

Same thing with the iPod. It is common sense that if you turn the volume all the way up on your iPod its going to be very loud. News flash: very loud noises from tiny speakers nestled in your ears will damage your hearing. There is actually a pamphlet in the iPod packaging stating that playing music too loud can damage your hearing. In the end those of us that are smart enough to use our own discretion in these kinds of matters wind up paying for stupidity.

Unfavorable mutants are supposed to remove themselves from the population by not surviving before being able to reproduce. Why are we letting these mutants get rich? They should stick to playing the lotto, or as I like to call it "Ineptitude of Math Tax."