The Blameless Society
May, 2005
It's time again for a look at our no-fault culture. In his book Evil: An Investigation, Lance Morrow notes that "evil portrays itself, almost without exception, as injured innocence, fighting back." If that's true, we're surrounded. And yet amid the charges and countercharges we always find a few stories that suggest we should be more optimistic. Here are two: (1) A study in the Michigan Law Review found that the percentage of people willing to settle in a hypothetical personal-injury...