Actor Suing Nintendo For Donkey Kong-Related Heart Injury

[Something Amyss]

I suspect there may be more to this story which will eventually come to light. People work long shifts in hot weather all the time without developing heart conditions.

And there are 90 year olds who have smoked a pack a day for 70 years and don't have cancer.

 

[Battenberg]

I suspect there may be more to this story which will eventually come to light. People work long shifts in hot weather all the time without developing heart conditions.

And there are 90 year olds who have smoked a pack a day for 70 years and don't have cancer.

Your point being? Yes things that are rare do, by definition, still occur but those rare occasions don't outweigh what happens the vast majority of the time. This guy's situation does not prove working for a long time and being too hot is solely responsible for causing his aortic dissection because so this experience is vastly outnumbered by people working the same conditions without such consequences. In the same way the few 90 year old smokers there are do not prove that smoking is not harmful or even beneficial in any way because they are in a tiny minority compared to those who have developed cancer and possibly haven't even reached 90.

My point was that unless there's more info coming that supports this guy's suit I can't see any court taking it seriously. He needs to show his working conditions or the actions of his employer are solely or at least largely responsible for what happened to him and, as it stands, I simply don't see anything that conveys that. He may well be right and I'm not disputing his right to sue Nintendo over this; I'm just observing that he's going to need to do/ say more to prove he has a serious legal case here.

 

[Something Amyss]

Your point being?

That you've offered nothing but specious reasoning.