It is true that any professional, be it a lawyer, doctor, writer or actor needs to protect his/her reputation. However, I find this rather stupid for this dude to sue Yahoo for comments raising anonymously on a message forum. Unless the comments are very specific to a wrongdoing or to an incident detrimental to his/her reputation (a general 'shyster' comment doesn't qualify), this lawsuit is over the top.
It's just this stupid cultural characteristic of this nation. Sue anyone, anwhere anytime for any reason whatsoever. This is the attribute of the wimpus americanus. Good lord not everyone is like that.
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It is true that any professional, be it a lawyer, doctor, writer or actor needs to protect his/her reputation. However, I find this rather stupid for this dude to sue Yahoo for comments raising anonymously on a message forum. Unless the comments are very specific to a wrongdoing or to an incident detrimental to his/her reputation (a general 'shyster' comment doesn't qualify), this lawsuit is over the top.
It's just this stupid cultural characteristic of this nation. Sue anyone, anwhere anytime for any reason whatsoever. This is the attribute of the wimpus americanus. Good lord not everyone is like that.