And old couple in California had a tire go flat and the sparks from it caused a over a billion dollars in damages. Are you going to publicly execute them? Spit up the 100 dollars they have collectively to make the 10,000 damaged people whole?
The legal system is nearly useless when a person/system can cause damages many of orders of magnitude larger than their assets. Society tends to engineer itself to prevent these things from happening in the first place.
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And old couple in California had a tire go flat and the sparks from it caused a over a billion dollars in damages. Are you going to publicly execute them? Spit up the 100 dollars they have collectively to make the 10,000 damaged people whole?
The legal system is nearly useless when a person/system can cause damages many of orders of magnitude larger than their assets. Society tends to engineer itself to prevent these things from happening in the first place.