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To Logic Zombie @logiczombie, long story short, I still think what I originally thought. But I digress. Let's continue. So, according to this video, McDonald's (MD) was serving coffee at up to 190 degrees. The old lady, Stella, spilt coffee onto her lap. She had burns. She almost died. She went to the hospital.

She Admits it Was Her Fault

She admitted that it was her fault for spilling the coffee.

But Very Hot

McDonald's admitted that, at that temperature, the coffee was a hazard. Before that famous McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit or case, in the decade prior, 700 people notified MD to say they were burnt by the hot coffee.

Begging For Socialism

Stella wanted welfare from MD, that is money to pay for the $20K USD medical bills. So, she didn't want to go to court, they say. After 8 months, MD gave Stella $800.

McDonald's Stole My Phone

Which reminds me that I lost a phone at McDonald's and they knew whole stole my phone thanks to the security cameras and refused to help. So, again, according to the video, Stella got $800 at first. That is better than nothing. They tried to sue or fine McDonald's 2.7 million dollars.

Almost One Million Dollars

They ended up settling to pay the woman $600K and they started lowering the temperature of their coffee. McDonald's, and other corporations, ran disinfo campaigns.

Propaganda

Now, historically, that is not new. Corporations and others have done things like that for decades, if not for centuries, Specifically, in this case, they were getting the general public to believe that there were a bunch of fake or crazy lawsuits, cases, etc. Now, to some extent, that is and is not true. They're both true. There are some good cases out there and some crazy cases out there too at the same time. It is more a question of how many, that is the ratio between good to crazy lawsuits, cases, etc. In the video haha, the black lady says "Mother Falcon." Haha.

Bad Publicity

I would have gave McDonald's a bad name. In other words, use peer pressure to talk about how hot the coffee was. Yes, the coffee was too hot. But I would not sue them for it. Well, technically, if they hid the fact that the coffee got up to like 190 degrees, then that might be excessively and too obviously and too aggressively criminal or evil or whatever. If you can prove that McDonald's were purposely trying to make people sick and purposely trying to burn people alive, then they should be in jail. I would not just take money from them.

Throw McDonald's in Jail

I would lock them up. Lock up the head people for allowing things to happen or for making bad things happen. But if there was no conspiracy, no false advertisements, no lies, no hiding of the truth, then I would not sue them. Of course, McDonald's lost or settled. Things like that happens all the time. Now, it is possible that McDonald's was too misleading on their coffee. Perhaps, they failed to say that the coffee was above boiling. If so, then lock them up. But if they were honest enough about it all, then no. Because if they were honest enough, transparent enough, etc, then it is solely the fault of the customers, period.