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by JetAlone
1642 days ago
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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. |
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