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by BlackFly 2995 days ago
This was always the problem I had with the idea of having liability for cleaning the ice off the sidewalk in front of your house. The province/city/state isn't responsible if your car crashes because they didn't salt the road/bridge in time (or at all), so why is there a double standard?
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It's good to be the king.

(that's literally where the double standard comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity )