Re:I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it
by ridgeguy on Thursday December 07, 2017 @11:35PM
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To answer your questions:
1. Yes. Suffering isn't necessarily limited to some brief interval of time. For example, disfiguring injuries can impose suffering (employment discrimination, loss of consortium, etc.) throughout a person's post-injury lifespan. Money can mitigate burdens imposed by such effects of injury.
2. I don't know. But I would estimate the conversion factor for third-degree burns over 40% of a kid's body as greater than that of a kid's having lost a hand. YMMV.
3. Yes, I do.
Re:I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it
by mgkimsal on Thursday December 07, 2017 @06:28PM
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> "actually serves to offset in any way shape or form the persons suffering"
If you're injured to the point where it impacts your ability to work, or you need extra care from someone... of course it offsets it.
Re:I gave Amazon a key to my house and regretted it
by michaelmrose on Thursday December 07, 2017 @07:37PM
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Paying for care has nothing to do with pain and suffering. I wasn't asking the pointless question you imagine I was asking an actual relevant nonobvious question.
Do you think quantifying pain and suffering has a positive value even if its very hard to come up with a meaningful way to define suffering in terms of dollars?