This topic comes up now and again with the mates when we are talking about the Morons of Misadventure. The talk is often inspired because some recently quadrapedic person has decided that the public are responsible for their jumping from a bridge or cliff into shallow water. Therefore by default the public purse is at their disposal because there was no WARNING SIGN, therefore the public was negligant.

Now, while not embrassing all of the eugenic philosophy, I must admit that I think there are times when impartial natural selection needs to be allowed to take its course. If any compensation is due, it should be through the sale of their story to the various Darwin Awards publications or web sites.

So I vote for the removal of all signs aimed at the misadventurous AND for implementing a "Natural Selection" clause in the legal code available for juries and judges to include in decisions involving misadventure.

Signage that warn of Falling Rocks should obviously be upgraded to include warnings of Falling Morons, but that's really for the benefit for the poor bastard below.

Eugenics is a bad choice for the title of this thread.

How about natural selection?

Reasonable tests for negligance and duty of care would still apply for public injury.

That is all that applies now. It's just that the reasonable decisions get filtered by the media, then by Alan jones, then by the bloke down at the pub.....

Just because someone can sue does not mean they can breed.