The problem isn't that punitive damages are high, the problem is that punitive damages are high AND the plaintiff+lawyers get to keep it.
Whining that some money might end up in the hands of lawyers, and out of the hands of abusers (or those who insure abusers), is simply dumbfuckery. Always has been, always will be.
This is why our system of punitive damages sucks. It encourages people to game the system in hopes of winning the lawsuit lottery.
Because people want to be have their rights abused, have their faces beaten in, or even killed on the slim chance they can force a settlement from a city's insurance company?
That's the dumbest fucking thing I've seen in quite some time, and this is the Internet.
Who needs the reality check? Why are you blathering on about hundreds of people injured when Obama's drone strikes have murdered hundreds of kids? Not to speak of the Iraq war, which has killed a million people, created millions more refugees, and destabilized an entire region of of the world?
100 pounds of racist American Exceptionalist bullshit in a five pound sack.
So sex differences only exist when they benefit men?
So you like a little projection with you non sequiturs?
That mothers would be more invested in their offspring is easily predicted by that fact that they have a massive biological investments in their offspring that men lack
They have the same long term investment: passing on genes. Biology 101.
it's one of those things that I'll simply cite as obvious.
What's obvious is you haven't seen the statistics showing that if you have to chose one parent, children are better off with their fathers than their mothers. Drug use, teen pregnancy, graduating from high school, incarceration rates...it's not even close. Before you whine about the web site name, note the copious amounts of sources, and your inability to counter them.
Unless you bring a weapon into the equation strength becomes relevant because it creates a power imbalance.
Some part of "abuse is about abuse, not who is stronger" that you have a hard time understanding?
Says the jingoistic idiot. Sending soldiers to death with a medical crisis makes as much sense as sending doctors to fight off an invasion. What part of "tiny Cuba sent far more doctors than the United States" are you having a hard time understanding?
What did you have to do that - bomb a school? Women have murdered their husbands in full view his daughter, served time, and still have a say over custody.
I think an unbiased system would be female skewed since mothers tend to be more dedicated than fathers but I don't know if the system is in fact unbiased.
You talk about an unbiased system while in the same breath making an incredibly biased statement. Interesting.
But the strength difference between men and women is pretty drastic
And irrelevant. Abuse isn't about who's stronger, it's about....abusing your partner. You could be a 400 lbs benchpressing linebacker, but it's not going to protect you from being hit with a frying pan while you're sleeping. There's also the heavy societal condition that men should never hit women, even if it's in self-defense.
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." - Anatole France
Conservatives are stereotypically the party that wants to reduce government to its basic functions
You mean they want no counterbalance to capitalism, greed, inherited wealth, rent seeking or oligarchy. Someone being exempt from work for the next ten generations because their last name is Bush, Clinton or Romney is the system working as intended.
Some poor kid getting foodstamps so he doesn't go hungry, equalized school funding so he's not in a class with 35 other kids, health care so his teeth rots out...that's a crime against humanity.
However you want to rationalize the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people on your hands, while wagging you finger at someone who killed....three people.
In exactly the same way that putting money put into fixing your leaky roof is a bad idea, when the reason it's leaking in the first place is your refusal to put money into it. A cycle you perfected, where nothing can go wrong!
Go fuck yourself, you goosestepping National Socialist, you. Being a cop isn't even in the top 20 most dangerous professions when you take out car accidents - which don't have anything to do with cops needing to get their guns off. That "danger" is the entire reason they claim they need to be able to murder people with impunity.
Law enforcement isn't all that dangerous of a job. In fact, it doesn't make the top 10.
Take out traffic accidents (which have jack to do with cops needing to get their guns off), and LEO's don't even crack the top 20 most dangerous professions. We don't allow retail workers or truck drivers to murder with impunity anyone who looks at them sideways, so WTF should anyone put up with that from cops with less dangerous careers?
Even for 10-pounds-of-dumbfuck-in-a-five-pound-racist-nazi-shitbag such as yourself.
They are being used for controlling people who drive for a living.
Sounds like conflating tracking a company vehicle with tracking a person. The lady in the story didn't have a problem being tracked - as long as it was during work hours.
They make you upgrade to the latest version, whether you want to or not, otherwise your software stops working.
Tell that to my iPad that I haven't updated for more than 6 months because I don't want to lose the jailbreak. Haven't run into a single app - including Apple's - that insists on upgrading to 8.3. Same thing happened the year before that, where I stayed on jailbroken versions of iOS 7.
but then they suddenly decide that your hardware cannot upgrade to the latest OS, without which your software won't work, ergo you have to get a new device.
You can run it on a 6 year old Mac Mini. We'll cry you a river.
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Whining that some money might end up in the hands of lawyers, and out of the hands of abusers (or those who insure abusers), is simply dumbfuckery. Always has been, always will be.
Because people want to be have their rights abused, have their faces beaten in, or even killed on the slim chance they can force a settlement from a city's insurance company?
That's the dumbest fucking thing I've seen in quite some time, and this is the Internet.
Who needs the reality check? Why are you blathering on about hundreds of people injured when Obama's drone strikes have murdered hundreds of kids? Not to speak of the Iraq war, which has killed a million people, created millions more refugees, and destabilized an entire region of of the world?
100 pounds of racist American Exceptionalist bullshit in a five pound sack.
So you like a little projection with you non sequiturs?
They have the same long term investment: passing on genes. Biology 101.
What's obvious is you haven't seen the statistics showing that if you have to chose one parent, children are better off with their fathers than their mothers. Drug use, teen pregnancy, graduating from high school, incarceration rates...it's not even close. Before you whine about the web site name, note the copious amounts of sources, and your inability to counter them.
Some part of "abuse is about abuse, not who is stronger" that you have a hard time understanding?
Says the jingoistic idiot. Sending soldiers to death with a medical crisis makes as much sense as sending doctors to fight off an invasion. What part of "tiny Cuba sent far more doctors than the United States" are you having a hard time understanding?
And if it's on the Internet, it must be true! Sorry, but that's just sloppy thinking.
Your bigoted phobia is noted.
What did you have to do that - bomb a school? Women have murdered their husbands in full view his daughter, served time, and still have a say over custody.
You talk about an unbiased system while in the same breath making an incredibly biased statement. Interesting.
And irrelevant. Abuse isn't about who's stronger, it's about....abusing your partner. You could be a 400 lbs benchpressing linebacker, but it's not going to protect you from being hit with a frying pan while you're sleeping. There's also the heavy societal condition that men should never hit women, even if it's in self-defense.
Women have had the right to vote for a century. WYP?
Easy comparison is the Ebola outbreak in Africa over the last year. The United States sent occupying troops. Cuba sent hundreds of doctors.
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." - Anatole France
You mean they want no counterbalance to capitalism, greed, inherited wealth, rent seeking or oligarchy. Someone being exempt from work for the next ten generations because their last name is Bush, Clinton or Romney is the system working as intended.
Some poor kid getting foodstamps so he doesn't go hungry, equalized school funding so he's not in a class with 35 other kids, health care so his teeth rots out...that's a crime against humanity.
However you want to rationalize the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people on your hands, while wagging you finger at someone who killed....three people.
How is it not unethical? Ever hear of disclosure when someone has a financial interest in something they're pushing?
Not the point, but you knew that already.
I don't get the willfully obtuse act, unless you're a sockpuppet account.
An entire legion of your best non sequiturs.
In exactly the same way that putting money put into fixing your leaky roof is a bad idea, when the reason it's leaking in the first place is your refusal to put money into it. A cycle you perfected, where nothing can go wrong!
Go fuck yourself, you goosestepping National Socialist, you. Being a cop isn't even in the top 20 most dangerous professions when you take out car accidents - which don't have anything to do with cops needing to get their guns off. That "danger" is the entire reason they claim they need to be able to murder people with impunity.
Take out traffic accidents (which have jack to do with cops needing to get their guns off), and LEO's don't even crack the top 20 most dangerous professions. We don't allow retail workers or truck drivers to murder with impunity anyone who looks at them sideways, so WTF should anyone put up with that from cops with less dangerous careers?
Even for 10-pounds-of-dumbfuck-in-a-five-pound-racist-nazi-shitbag such as yourself.
Or you could blow it out your racist ass, given the steady stream of black (and white) men murdered by cops for minding their own business.
What do you think court rulings - all court rulings - are based on?
Sounds like conflating tracking a company vehicle with tracking a person. The lady in the story didn't have a problem being tracked - as long as it was during work hours.
Tell that to my iPad that I haven't updated for more than 6 months because I don't want to lose the jailbreak. Haven't run into a single app - including Apple's - that insists on upgrading to 8.3. Same thing happened the year before that, where I stayed on jailbroken versions of iOS 7.
You can run it on a 6 year old Mac Mini. We'll cry you a river.
He didn't say it was, Hateboi.
Distinction without a difference.