Recently dropped a Le Creuset kettle and snapped the plastic whistle. Emailed them asking if this could be fixed, they said, nah, and processed a replacement kettle of my choice without asking if I was still within their 5 year warranty.
I wasn't.
Gifted it to a friend who recently got her own place to live.
Don't forget the isolation, legal high ground, and human rights abuses. This article does a good job listing all the reason why they are so desperate to send their kidnapped to Louisiana.
Spoken like somebody whose never sword fisted before