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[-] qooqie@lemmy.world 106 points 8 months ago

Wow the value of a life I guess. I don’t really know what can come close to the value of a life, but this doesn’t seem like it.

[-] burliman@lemm.ee 27 points 8 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 61 points 8 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.

[-] mindlessscrollingparrot@kbin.social 25 points 8 months ago

Two people were killed, so you're really talking 11.5k.

[-] ghastly_03_startup@infosec.pub 11 points 8 months ago

Seeing as they were using the now being recalled Tesla auto pilot during the auto accident, it may not entirely be the drivers fault. This may be part of the rational behind the judgement.

[-] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 33 points 8 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.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 8 points 8 months ago

Consistent and clear pattern of lying to everyone, minimizing, and shifting blame with clear motivation of personal profits.

Fully agree on prison time.

[-] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world -1 points 8 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.

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