[jktogjfnn]

But think about how we got here.

In US you can get 100 mil in liability damages per injured person in lawsuits, which doesn't make any sense when you consider that with that sum you could save thousands of lives (poor people, ...)

So you could easily be made to pay 10 bil for causing vaccine damage to a 1000 people, while disregarding the hundred of millions the vaccine saved.

Do you think that would be fair?

[dang]

Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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[JetAlone]

I'd have to ask, do liability damages have to be 100 mil per person? Why can't they be significantly less, IE more commensurate to a reasonable (surely never 100% accurate) assessment of the rough economic value of damages actually inflicted?

If we cannot save millions of lives with meds without the following drawbacks:

    -Inadequate recourse for many of those suffering harmful side effects.

    -The effective re-distribution of the people's wealth to the harmed individual to spackle over the damage should harmful effects occur.

    -Infringing on the rights of human beings to prevent them from taking medical procedures they want to preserve corporate bottom lines.

Then beyond it being fair for a vaccine company to go under, I believe it would be just for the entire legal and civic system to collapse to be rebuilt by a structure that respects both human liberty and dignity. I believe it's a cycle that will happen again and again, every time, until we get it right and can finally keep millions of people safe enough to living meaningful enough lives without trampling their rights and without encouraging them to become too weak to preserve them. And further, I don't think we're ever actually going to get it right as a species, so things like this are going to happen, once in a long lifetime.

[willcipriano]

Without a vaccine mandate I can see your argument, however if you force people to take a drug you have decided to take ownership of the situation. In that case you are responsible for the outcome. If you don't want to be responsible for a choice, don't make it.

[JetAlone]

Careful there, that's fash-adjacent talk </s>