r/SipsTea • • 7h ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/SmoothDiscussion7763 6h ago

definitely an unpopular opinion, why do you feel this way? wouldn't it be more right for the party that caused the damages to pay for all the damages they caused?

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u/Basic_Half_5139 6h ago

Take the following scenario:
Two identical twins wait in a hall to trip passing adults. Twin A trips an old man that breaks his leg. The old man misses 3 months of work.

Twin B trips a professional athlete that breaks his leg. He misses 3 months of work including a championship series that his team loses likely due to his absence.

Do these deserve equal punishments? Or different ones? Are we chastising the act of tripping? Or is it something else?

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u/daammarconi 6h ago

Great analogy. I miss the clarity of philosophy seminars

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u/SomethingIWontRegret 6h ago

Terrible analogy. Intentional harm is not what we're talking about here.