There’s a lot of shit to criticize this guy for, the accident that resulted in his partial paralysis is not one of them!  We don’t even know that the driver was “hungover,” that is just idle speculation from people in this thread, and I’m not sure on what basis it is “your fault” if a driver who is tired crashes.  You…

fuck you

Okay, cool. Just like I hope Biden is the last gasp of Boomer, Reagan-era Democrats who think you have to cosplay as Republicans to win elections (you would think so since he’s 78, but here came Pete Buttigieg so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), I hope Harris and Klobuchar are the last gasp of politicians (or at least Democrats) building…

“Victim” absolutely applies, because whatever exhaustion/hangover/whatever may have impacted the driver, Cawthorn wasn’t driving! Like, you’re allowed to be a sleepy, hungover car passenger.

Wear a mask or stay the fuck home.

He did sue the friend and the friend’s dad. Like most individuals, I’m sure the friend and his dad are probably judgment proof, at least for that amount of money. That’s why auto insurance exists and is required in the first place.

The correct choice how? How is there a “correct choice”? I’m not asking whether you would trade your current circumstances for his. I’m sorry that you’re this unhappy with your life, but that’s just not the question.

I mean, you’re not choosing between $3 million and partial paralysis on the one hand, and teaching during a pandemic on the other hand. I’m gathering from this you are saying if you could go back, with the benefit of hindsight and decide whether to become a teacher knowing you would have to teach during a pandemic,…

What does the fact that you teach have anything to do with it? Also, I don’t think the concept of opportunity cost comes into play at all.

I’m sorry, what is your point exactly?

When you were a teenager, if you were offered $3 million to be partially paralyzed, without use of your legs for the rest of your life, would you take that deal?

Sorry, my language was sloppy. When I say the fight was lost, I don’t mean irrevocably, or anything like that, just that the well is so thoroughly poisoned against any individual seeking recompense for harm in litigation that the default reaction to something like “person, given $3 million by insurance company for…

So, first of all, it’s not a lot of money if it is going towards medical expenses, which I’m sure you can imagine for something as serious as what he suffered can easily run into the millions of dollars.  Second, it’s actually not a lot of money for a 20 year old, because part of what he deserves to be compensated for…

My experience is that tort reformers have been so successful at poisoning the discourse against litigation that could help people receive compensation for injuries they’ve suffered, particularly at the hands of big companies, that most people, even fairly sophisticated liberals/progressives/leftists, whatever fall…

Why? Because they played a concert?

I mean, I don’t understand how a guy who has been through what he went through, struggling so hard to get fair compensation and being weighed down by massive medical debt, can be so against “socialized medicine.”  But we should be careful how we describe his lawsuit....$3 million probably isn’t that much money…

I wouldn’t take one single passing mention in an article as typical of the position of all “lefties.”

I’m not refusing to acknowledge it’s relevance. In fact, I said it was relevant. What I am doing is placing its relevance in a proper context. Not every police work stoppage results in a riot! Sometimes policing LEADS to riots! Ablolishing or defunding the police would be much different than what happens when there…

Uh huh. And sometimes riots are caused directly by policing, so...

Well, yeah, riots have a tendency to diverge from the status quo.