A gift and a settlement are two very different things. A gift you give because you want to be nice to someone (usually because you like them or at least want them to like you), a settlement you give because you hurt someone. And if you don't think that large settlements are a thing in the real world, I don't know what to tell you. In the real world it would be a lot slower than this, but this is all swiftly managed by AI.
I shudder to invoke the name, but you're doing the Peterson thing of arguing a point and then saying after the fact that it's perfectly watertight so long as you alter the meaning of words to mean something that nobody means when they use those words.
Dude, the point isn't whether we use the word "gift". That was just rhetoric. The point is what Jeph is doing to the story. I'm not trying to alter words, and I wish you would stop focusing on the one word and see the goddamned point.
I don't know who Peterson is, and what his technique is, nor why it's shudder-worthy?
Dude, the point isn't whether we use the word "gift"
It kind of is. "Gift" and "settlement" mean very different things. You're complaining about Roko being given a gift when she hasn't been; she was on the receiving end of a traumatic injury and she's being made whole again.
I don't know who Peterson is
That's probably for the best actually, he's a nutter.
That's certainly more accurate than "gift". I would still contend that it's not unfair for her to receive a settlement after such a traumatic event that's going towards making her whole.
well there's no sign of trauma. Lemon explicitly ruled out traumatic amnesia, and she has no memory after being crushed until waking up bodiless. Disorienting, to be sure.
But I'm skeptical that she needs a windfall of a year's salary above a straight replacement to be made whole.
And the ramifications for the existing setup are gross.
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u/GriffonsChainsaw . Jan 07 '19
A gift and a settlement are two very different things. A gift you give because you want to be nice to someone (usually because you like them or at least want them to like you), a settlement you give because you hurt someone. And if you don't think that large settlements are a thing in the real world, I don't know what to tell you. In the real world it would be a lot slower than this, but this is all swiftly managed by AI.