Pen to Wappa to Jijitsu-kon - Vol. 3 Ch. 20

[NotSomeone]

If you ever have to spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair, do come back to tell me how well that compensation protected you.

As for me, I'd rather preserve human lives with pedantry, than endanger them through negligence.

1. You're working with extremes, also the compensation is not protection, it's compensation, it's in the name.
2. Yeah, we are preserving human lives through rules and laws that you were so quick to dismiss as "doing nothing".

If you're talking about how people don't look both sides before crossing a road or whatever example you used before, there are rules and laws there too, for both pedastrians and drivers, these are in place to negate accidents as much as possible.
But as much as you can minimize human error you can't get rid of it, that's why we punish those who are wrong and why we compensate victims.

Or are you going to argue that it's wrong to compensate victims of abuse, assault, neglect and accidents with money and/or therapy because these things shouldn't even happen in the first place?

Look, Laws and Rules are BOTH, they are measures we put in place so that wrong things DON'T happen and they are the measures we take when bad things do happen so that we can minimize the suffering as much as possible.

I am not naive, I know that sometimes both fail and we are left without any kind of aid, but that doesn't mean the whole idea of the system is meaningless.

 

[titundo]

1. You're working with extremes, also the compensation is not protection, it's compensation, it's in the name.
2. Yeah, we are preserving human lives through rules and laws that you were so quick to dismiss as "doing nothing".

If you're talking about how people don't look both sides before crossing a road or whatever example you used before, there are rules and laws there too, for both pedastrians and drivers, these are in place to negate accidents as much as possible.
But as much as you can minimize human error you can't get rid of it, that's why we punish those who are wrong and why we compensate victims.

Or are you going to argue that it's wrong to compensate victims of abuse, assault, neglect and accidents with money and/or therapy because these things shouldn't even happen in the first place?

Look, Laws and Rules are BOTH, they are measures we put in place so that wrong things DON'T happen and they are the measures we take when bad things do happen so that we can minimize the suffering as much as possible.

I am not naive, I know that sometimes both fail and we are left without any kind of aid, but that doesn't mean the whole idea of the system is meaningless.

I don't think there's anything worth responding to, to be honest. That guy's comments were just splitting hairs.

Laws influence behavior, and law enforcement enforce laws (duh!). People who would do anything illegal would have to think twice about the consequences. Many won't proceed because of laws, even if some will. Period. End of. That the protection isn't total is irrelevant.