The U.S. helped middle eastern governments kill every leftist in their countries in the Cold War and was vital in installing many of these regressive dictatorships, particularly in the Persian Gulf.
In the described cases, no one in the U.S. coalition was even taking fire from a particular building. They literally obliterated buildings full of civilians because they thought the buildings might have fighters. Personally, I find that morally abhorrent and a total disregard for the value of life.
Okay...and? I said that neither China nor Russia are good actors (when I said invasions, I meant active ones, but I get your point), however, the U.S. is worse.
-The Russian invasion of both Ukraine and Georgia, summed together, had a civilian deathtoll of 4000+
-If we throw in the first/second Chechen war as well, we get a TOTAL civilian deathtoll of ~70k+
The U.S. killed 500k+ CHILDREN (not even accounting for adult civilians) with its Iraq sanctions (before the invasion), this is just ONE country of the MANY countries the U.S. has been a participant in destabilizing in the last two decades (and we're not even talking about Korea/Vietnam/supplying Saddam with chemical weapons/Gulf War/South American interventions)
If you want to look at it from a per capita standpoint, the U.S. has killed far, far more civilians than Russia has (not that this justifies even the death of a SINGLE civilian), but one must objectively come to the realization that the U.S. is the biggest force for civilian mass murder in the world.
You can dress it up as "it was for democracy and freedom", but I don't think anyone buys that anymore. They don't even sell it to us as that anymore, now its for "national security", which is the same excuse Russia and China make as well.
The body counts are not even comparable. In Iraq, ALONE, the U.S. is estimated to have killed 1M+ civilians, between the sanctions it pushed before the 2003 war and the war itself.
Here is Madeline Albright saying killing 500k+ kids in Iraq via sanctions was "worth the price" (despite the fact that those sanctions achieved nothing in terms of real political goals):
Yes, we are, and people will literally bury their heads in the sand every time our government cries about Russia, Iran, or China (despite the fact that none of those are invading any other countries). Not saying those countries never do bad things, but we are way worse, and even worse, we try to justify our actions with words like "democracy" and "freedom" which actually hurts those causes.
There is so much innocent blood on America's hands from just the last two decades alone, its really quite something unfathomable everytime I hear one of those CIA people cry about what Russia or China is doing.
1) Why shouldn't one be compensated for a faulty product? Considering all we have is the OP's word for it, it appears that there was no faulty use and the product (whether the entire product line or that individual set of headphones) likely had some issue. You say it was an "accident", as if it were some act of God and not an act of physics.
2) Yes, Americans are crazy on independence, apparently you have a different definition for the word. Independence doesn't mean that people can push out faulty products and the populace just has to deal with it. Independence does not mean no one takes responsibility for issues they cause.
3) The American system is much better than what I have seen in the rest of the world where you can just push out faulty medicine or have faulty surgeries, for example, maim people and then get away with paying them some meager $20k total, forcing them to rely on public services and pushing them to borderline poverty for life.