That sounds great and I agree with you on some points but if you started to impose punitive damages for situations like this the system would collapse around us. ultimately there are human being behind every mistake, and we do make errors...a lot of them. All punitive damages like that would do is drive up prices and cause corporatons to spend so much money in safety protocols that the red tape would slow our progress to a crawl.
It's crazy and ridiculous that this type of shit happens, but ultimately people do have flaws and it will continue. punishment where damages are experienced is one thing. but purely punitive damages on the scale spoken about here, I think would be ultimately too costly to us the consumer in the end.
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