• burliman@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What would be the value of life then? I’ll save you the answer: no matter how big the number you say, someone else will say bigger. Until it becomes priceless, which is the answer.

    However death and accidental death isn’t always avoidable. And when we pin the fault on someone we cannot expect to say “priceless” is what they owe the victim’s family. So we assign an amount of money or time that hurts, and call it good.

    Doesn’t mean life is worth that. And saying so doesn’t help anyone.

    • a4ng3l@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Sure but even looking a only the financial produce of one person for a family dwarfs the comical 23k here. And that’s not even looking at the emotional side of things. 23k is straight insulting imho.

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        1 year ago

        That’s life insurances job, this would be on top of life insurance, and is more about where the money comes than where it is going.

    • TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      True. But what if Tesla has to pay a billion for producing software that runs people over? They probably would not have beta software on the road.