During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not have to give out as many free refills of coffee. This policy by the fast food chain is the reason the jury awarded $2.7 million dollars in punitive damages in the McDonald’s hot coffee case. Punitive damages are meant to punish the defendant for their inappropriate business practice.

        • @[email protected]English
          4•1 year ago

          If you want to defend Saint Teresa of Calcutta and how she funneled charity money to the Vatican while being unable to afford analgesics in her hospices, calling pain “Jesus’s kisses”, or defending child molesters and getting an exorcism to heal her heart attack while opposing both abortion and contraception, then you shouldn’t encourage people to do better research… which they can start with at:

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa

                • @[email protected]English
                  0•1 year ago

                  There has never been any credible accusation of Mother Teresa stealing money from her hospice to give to the Vatican

                  That’s a funny way of saying that she sent over 90% of donations directly to the Vatican, instead of putting them towards hospice work. Sure, she didn’t “steal from her hospice”… the money didn’t even reach the hospice in the first place!

                  But hey, she managed to spare some change to fund monasteries over Europe, and followed Mahatma Gandhi’s steps in “no painkillers for thee, but all of them for me”.