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?

  • 11111one11111@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    All you keep responding with is “doesnt deserve that much” without replying to any comment that explains the payout isnt all for the plaintiff but also to ensure the guilty defendant doesnt commit the same offense ever again. Are you just ignoring that aspect or do you have any recommendations for better ways to make sure it would never happen again? So in the example case, do you want the defendant to face the death penalty? Subsequently if your problem only resodes with the plaintiff recieving that much money, who do you propose the punitive damages sum goes to?