Rudy Guiliani defamation cost him $148 million

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(12-21-2023, 06:00 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: This is a well stated, and fact based, post.  It directly addresses the thread and my point.  I'm still not getting anywhere close to thinking the amount of damages is anything close to reasonable.  Yes, I agree that the damage the plaintiffs sustained were substantial.  They still come nowhere near losing your life or the life of a loved one.  If you want to argue that people who, as was used as an example, lose a loved one because a doctor was drunk when they performed surgery on the loved on should get more than these women, I could be on board with that.  Of course there would be attendant consequences to such a change in damages awarded, but we'd at least be logically consistent.

Important and rich people get off light for killing people, too. I think talking about this situation as if it were normal is the biggest impasse here.