Yep. My Mom never said, "That's a dangerous situation....we're gonna sue you."
My Mom always said to me, "Well, I guess you won't do that again!"
And that folks, is how you get people to realize that whatever happens to them is usually because of their actions/inactions...….for either good or bad.
A guy posted on an electronic forum a few years ago that he'd gotten one of those "zapper" fly-swatters as a kid, and decided to see if it would bite him if he touched it really fast.
It did, of course, and his Dad was walking by his room just as he got zapped.
He said Dad never slowed down, but he heard him say "idiot" as he walked on down the hall.