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Werribee Gorge Accident 10-May-2006 At 2:33:32 PM Ronny

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On 10/05/2006 Chalk Free wrote:

>I drive on the road and on the left because it makes sense. Traffic flows
>better, less accidents, less hold ups, purely for selfish reasons really.
>Not because if I don't I might get sued.

Yep. And one of those annoying 'hold-ups' would be if you ran someone down and had to stop, or hit some other car, or had to go to court and defend yourself against a negligence claim.
Likewise the company that sells the knife would rather not bother with too many spurious cases to defend, so it 'covers its ass' by adding the captain obvious warning. It is entirely selfish.

The point is just that within whatever factual situation you're talking about, people always do things to avoid foreseeable risk to others, and the associated problems for themselves should that risk be realised. Hence the knife warning.