How stupid is it that we have to clarify all the time, “I am not a professional, only a crayon chewing amateur[expert], and you have free will to ponder the ideas I am presenting you and accept them or not”?

Like, DURRRRRRR. I should be able to say every step I followed or every step I’ve found and still have it be understood that all action involves risk and any action you take is not my liability. If I take them on pure faith, that’s really on me. If there’s not enough sauce provided and I don’t request it, that’s really on me. Such is the nature of personal accountability.

The exceptions are maybe:

• if you’re being paid to ensure that this is legal/relatively sound and have a history of flipping 100 to 0 or getting people in liability trouble, professionally (gross incompetence / negligence)
• if you can be proven to be acting in bad faith against the best interests of your clients / the people you are advising (fraud)

Just giving out advice and information based off research shouldn’t generally have to be clarified every time.

The people who’ve made us afraid of lawsuits for speaking without a disclaimer, themselves, need to be in prison for abusing the legal system.

How stupid is it that we have to clarify all the time, “I am not a professional, only a crayon chewing amateur, and you have free will to ponder the ideas I am presenting you and accept them or not”?

Like, DURRRRRRR. I should be able to say every step I followed or every step I’ve found and still have it be understood that all action involves risk and any action you take is not my liability. If I take them on pure faith, that’s really on me. If there’s not enough sauce provided and I don’t request it, that’s really on me. Such is the nature of personal accountability.

The exceptions are maybe:

• if you’re being paid to ensure that this is legal/relatively sound and have a history of flipping 100 to 0 or getting people in liability trouble, professionally (gross incompetence / negligence)
• if you can be proven to be acting in bad faith against the best interests of your clients / the people you are advising (fraud)

Just giving out advice and information based off research shouldn’t generally have to be clarified every time.

The people who’ve made us afraid of lawsuits for speaking without a disclaimer, themselves, need to be in prison for abusing the legal system.

How stupid is it that we have to clarify all the time, “I am not a professional, and you have free will to ponder the ideas I am presenting you and accept them or not”?

Like, DURRRRRRR. I should be able to say every step I followed or every step I’ve found and still have it be understood that all action involves risk and any action you take is not my liability. If I take them on pure faith, that’s really on me. If there’s not enough sauce provided and I don’t request it, that’s really on me. Such is the nature of personal accountability.

The exceptions are maybe:

• if you’re being paid to ensure that this is legal/relatively sound and have a history of flipping 100 to 0 or getting people in liability trouble, professionally (gross incompetence / negligence)
• if you can be proven to be acting in bad faith against the best interests of your clients / the people you are advising (fraud)

Just giving out advice and information based off research shouldn’t generally have to be clarified every time.

The people who’ve made us afraid of lawsuits for speaking without a disclaimer, themselves, need to be in prison for abusing the legal system.