It's Someone Else's Fault I'm an Idiot

Too bad all judges don't have the all-too-uncommon common sense of this one, who wrote the following while dismissing a case against Philip Morris for a fire caused by a lit cigarette and the furniture company for not making their sofa fireproof:

No court has found that there is a duty to make our world fool-proof or risk free. Nor is there a duty to warn of obvious consequences of foolish behavior.

In this case, we will reject the opportunity to hold that just because something could happen, failure to prevent it is unreasonable….

Nothing this court can do will change what happened. But we are obliged to ensure that the law is applied dispassionately, and in a principled way.

(h/t Overlawyered)