>> No common sense used.
I was just thinking that exact same thing. It's not only the legal system encouraging lawsuits, or "too many lawyers", it's the total lack of anything resembling common sense or a sense of proportion.
I see it at work. Once there are regulations, or even a formal process, "Compliance" takes over and common sense is forbidden. Often, in order to comply with the "process" that was intended to produce uniformly better results, we have to give up things that WOULD have given better results, but are not part of "The Process".
Everyone, uniformly, says "that makes no sense, but we have to do it this way or the work will be rejected".
