Clock Boy

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I just don't see how a city paying him $15 Million magically "fixes" anything anymore than $1 Million does. I am one who actually thinks it was a racial issue, but at the same time this is a blatant money grab just because they can. Somewhere along the line we started awarding inflated amounts of money to people who suffered no "real" harm other than exposure to what is going to occur throughout life (Unfortunate truth). Should he get a payout? yea, probably. $15 Million? Not a chance. Let's be honest, if this ruined his life (Which I would argue it has actually offered him far more opportunities then he ever could have asked for) then he should be paid what he could have been expected to make over his lifetime assuming he is just in emotional shambles. Even being overly generous a pay out of $3 million total would be more than enough.

We really need to get our hands around these completely asinine payouts.