Read a news article, by headline because really I don’t care enough to be bothered reading why. About a mother, who was denied home-at-work and had a child die over some circumstance, was awarded $22 million. Whether she gets it or not, doesn’t matter, what matters is that nobody should ever win that much in any case. Millions have been tossed around so fruitlessly in cases like these.
Should that mom deserve some form of compensation? Yeah, probably, but not millions. It doesn’t bring back the the child, in fact, money never really heals these kinds of wounds. If so, why isn’t anyone getting some of that money anyways?
“Punitive damages” in a search engine of your choice should clear things up.
Doesn’t deserve that much money.
What did you learn about the purpose of punitive damages and how did that impact your reply?
Maybe the party causing the damage deserves to lose that much money.
Or needs to pay that much to change their behavior instead of just filing it under “operating costs”.
She doesn’t get it, that’s not how it works.