Things should work properly, and work safely when properly used. However, there is such an infinite variety of stupidity available that you can't possibly take precautions against every possible idiotic misuse or abuse of something, and I think trying to do so has adverse consequences in the long run for everyone except the product-liability lawyers. There should be some sort of reasonable-man test — "No reasonable man would try to start a chainsaw while holding it between his knees by the cutting bar", for example. Something to prevent liability lawyers from making manufacturers pay through the nose because the customer did something utterly bone-headed.
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