I am just bothered by the idea that the common folk have to explicitly police these corporations to do the right thing. This kind of justice allows people to risk bad policies just because they might, on the off-chance, get away.

In this case, its us telling the corporation that we don't think they have liability for a guy reselling their product.

Liability is used as a boogyman in corporate american to squash all sorts of good and bad ideas.

Unfortunately it's a very real boogeyman in the US.

"The U.S. has the highest liability costs as a percentage of GDP of the countries surveyed, with liability costs at 2.6 times the average level of the Eurozone economies"

https://www.instituteforlegalreform.com/uploads/sites/1/ILR_...

I think that's only one aspect of the current arrangement. At one of the extremes is the rise of the cancel culture. A subset of people have learned that if they complain loud enough, even in small numbers, corporations will bow to almost any demand. These corporations seem completely devoid of any kind of rational arbiter for such decisions and are purely reactionary.

"Today, we reached out to Jayson to express our appreciation for good PR and admiration for not getting bad PR," a spokeswoman for Krispy Kreme tells CNN regarding their recent total 180.