Having some inkling of the scale of the organisation, I made what I thought was a reasonable comment. We're all just pissing in the wind to a greater or lesser degree, I hardly think I was being unreasonable.
Irrespective of whether it was an individual or an organisation being sued, I would still find the sum-per-head distasteful on an emotional/moral, if not rational level. Surely you can see what I was trying to point out?
In the situation where the plaintiff has practically no money, I would consider some sort of forced corrective measures more appropriate - in an individual, jail time / community service, in the case of an organisation, the equivalent to the culpable management, or an equally ruinous fine to the management.
I stick by the idea that fining that amount is as near to useless as damnit, to the point of being insulting, though I accept that, as someone else pointed out that there may not have been any other mechanism by which to punish them.
You know I'm not a kid. I don't need the bold, or the patronising rhetorical question. I do actually think before I speak. :/
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Date: 2005-05-31 10:15 pm (UTC)Having some inkling of the scale of the organisation, I made what I thought was a reasonable comment. We're all just pissing in the wind to a greater or lesser degree, I hardly think I was being unreasonable.
Irrespective of whether it was an individual or an organisation being sued, I would still find the sum-per-head distasteful on an emotional/moral, if not rational level. Surely you can see what I was trying to point out?
In the situation where the plaintiff has practically no money, I would consider some sort of forced corrective measures more appropriate - in an individual, jail time / community service, in the case of an organisation, the equivalent to the culpable management, or an equally ruinous fine to the management.
I stick by the idea that fining that amount is as near to useless as damnit, to the point of being insulting, though I accept that, as someone else pointed out that there may not have been any other mechanism by which to punish them.
You know I'm not a kid. I don't need the bold, or the patronising rhetorical question. I do actually think before I speak. :/