I live in that world. The responsibility for my life is mine and if I climb on some who-knows-how-old treeswing in some rustic cottage tied to an old tree without any leaves on it then you can be damn sure I&#x27;ll check to see if it is solid before I trust my own weight to it and I&#x27;ll check it myself before I let my kids play with it. Because money from some settlement won&#x27;t give me back my life <i>or</i> my children and because trees have been known to break every now and then even when not burdened with tree swings carrying adults and even when they&#x27;re healthy and not dead like this particular tree. It all boils down to personal responsibility and if you let that go then accidents can happen.<p>This is not the brakes of your car services by some competent mechanic in which case I can easily see a liability issue but in the case of old stuff hanging from trees different rules apply.<p>For that matter, when visiting a friend who has two young children <i>and</i> a nice swing in their garden I spent the better part of a day re-inforcing the swing and its foundation because I thought the whole thing was an accident waiting to happen.