Max and I were playing basketball in the park when it started raining. Soon we were told to leave because the park was closed. "Must be a liability thing," I said. "They don't want to be sued by someone who slips and falls."
"I hate this liability stuff," Max said.
"Yeah," I agreed. "I guess the theory is if people can sue, there's incentive to make it safe."
"They should make dangerous parks, like what Virilio calls oblique architecture."
Tort law makes for too much of two good things: safety and fairness. We need risk and tough luck as much, if not more, than their opposites.
