• @burliman@lemm.ee
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    207 months 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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      507 months 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.

        • @AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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          257 months ago

          Tesla should be out millions for this. The autopilot feature is a gimmick and not at all transparent. They’re beta testing on the public and people are dying because of it. This is a corporate decision that needs to have corporate consequences over and above legal ones. People shouldn’t just be getting minor fines, they should be going to prison and losing absolutely everything.

      • Tarquinn2049
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        -27 months 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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      57 months 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.