Originally Posted by
CollegeFlyer
So, not only do I think anyone who is legally entitled to collect damages under a consumer-protection statute should feel entitled to those damages, but I actually think that it may well be the citizen's civic duty to collect those damages, because that is what the legislature and the President have stated that they want the citizen to do, in order to help the government punish behavior that the government has declared to be wrongful.
If the US govt wanted their citizens to do such as a civic duty, they might want to adapt the laws of the foreign government that passed them. I truly doubt the US govt believes it is your civic duty to enforce a regulation that they have not endorsed.
Talk about going overboard!