Comment · Thu, December 5, 2024 · ND Owner
Found this bad boy while cleaning my garage today... empty😭
What they were answering
rancid_oil · 3 points
So clearly the laws the FDA enforces are not for consumer protection. Got it.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
They often cite the Supreme Court decision in 1981: Warren v. District of Columbia
fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.
That was about police, but was used in subsequent cases as precedent to apply that concept to all agents of the government.
DeShaney v. Winnebago County
The Due Process Clause does not impose a special duty on the state to provide services to the public for protection against private actors if the state did not create those harms. “The Clause is phrased as a limitation on the State’s power to act, not as a guarantee of certain minimal levels of safety and security; while it forbids the State itself to deprive individuals of life, liberty, and property without due process of law, its language cannot fairly be read to impose an affirmative obligation on the State to ensure that those interests do not come to harm through other means.
So it is long-standing legal precedent that the government has no duty to protect citizens from harm, unless the government itself directly caused the harm. This sentiment is echoed by many people I have spoken to in government. They are there to enforce laws and regulations, and punish those that break them, not to protect the American public.