Distracted driving (see this Glee PSA on texting and driving featuring Dianna Agron playing Quinn Fabray) and social media liability are increasing concerns.

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Why not require the same approach for guns, which pose plenty of social and economic liability?

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Instead, they would ultimately eliminate the unfunded liability of Social Security entirely, which would be the biggest reduction in effective government debt in world history.

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That benefit alone now represents a substantially larger unfunded liability over time than Social Security does.

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Vicarious liability is almost a piece of social policy.

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And so the question is, at what point can we have a serious conversation about Medicare and its long-term liability, or a serious question about -- a serious conversation about Social Security, or a serious conversation about budget and debt in which we're not simply trying to position ourselves politically.

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Liability costs are also lower in Canada, which has the same level of social spending as the U.S., study authors said.

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Self-regulation, social norms, and public pressure can also help counter many problems without resorting to major changes in liability norms.

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