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by bdjsiqoocwk 695 days ago
Has your mom got in touch with the museum to tell them that, so they can improve? If not why not?
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I honestly don't know. I imagine not.
It’s not their mothers responsibility to correct their incompetence, or (imo) more likely negligence and information falsification.
A) I didn't say it was their responsibility

B) I don't wanna assume malice where incompetence will do

If you walked into a old house and found a random toy, would you automatically assume the toy is as old as the house?
If you saw something broken that's not your responsibility would you fix it?

I know the answer in your case, but believe me that a lot of people would.

With his rhetorical question, he's saying it must be malice because no museum operator would be that incompetent. They're actively making a false claim to their customers. They could have just not said anything about the age of the toys since they know they didn't verify it. I think you can see this must be the case since you didn't answer his question.

In my country, if a business makes a factual claim about its products, it has to have already verified the correctness of it to some reasonable level and have the documentation so show that. There's no room for this "oh, I just assumed it was true because I'm incompetent" excuse.

> you can see this must be the case

What I can see is the case is that you're both way too confident in your inferences for a bunch of mind readers. Why not just call them up and find out? Oh right "not my job".

And btw "no X could be that Y" last time I heard that line was in a sitcom.

> If you saw something broken that's not your responsibility would you fix it?

If it were a genuine mistake and not fraudulent, yes.

> I know the answer in your case, but believe me that a lot of people would.

Weren’t you just talking about not assuming malice?

I wasn't assuming malice from you, I was assuming that either too lazy or too self-centered. No malice.

You can't get one in today huh.

Maybe they just made a mistake.