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It must surely be a bizarre and twisted world where 'No Win, No Fee' solicitors are a force for good in the world. While the intention of the laws they exploit may have been intended for the benefit of mankind, they are cultivating the greed and lack of personal responsibility which is the cancer of our age.
And then there's The Bastards. Everyone, I'm sure, has at least one in their lives. They are people who seem to operate without any moral compass, any sense of empathy for their fellow human beings, any poetry in their soul, any sense of wonder. They are small, petty people, frustrated with their own powerlessness who stamp on anyone around them as hard as they can in compensation. People with tight, closed, scared minds, the sort of people who say, 'I'm not being racist/sexist/homophobic, but...' They may change, because everyone can change. But it would probably take a night-time visit from three ghosts, a meeting with a messiah, and surviving a major, world-changing disaster to crack that shell of theirs. And possibly the most frustrating thing with these people is that you are never, ever going to be in a position to hand out some just deserts.
(In my life, the majority of Bastards can be found in middle-management.)
Now, for the ethical question of the day.
Can you see what it is yet?
Lets say a Bastard deals you personal injury. It's painful, and means you lose money because you have to stay off work. And that's not to mention the hospital visits, costs of prescriptions, taxis, social isolation, intense itchiness.
Now, is it ethically viable to use a No Win, No Fee company to wring as much money out of them as possible?
And then there's The Bastards. Everyone, I'm sure, has at least one in their lives. They are people who seem to operate without any moral compass, any sense of empathy for their fellow human beings, any poetry in their soul, any sense of wonder. They are small, petty people, frustrated with their own powerlessness who stamp on anyone around them as hard as they can in compensation. People with tight, closed, scared minds, the sort of people who say, 'I'm not being racist/sexist/homophobic, but...' They may change, because everyone can change. But it would probably take a night-time visit from three ghosts, a meeting with a messiah, and surviving a major, world-changing disaster to crack that shell of theirs. And possibly the most frustrating thing with these people is that you are never, ever going to be in a position to hand out some just deserts.
(In my life, the majority of Bastards can be found in middle-management.)
Now, for the ethical question of the day.
Can you see what it is yet?
Lets say a Bastard deals you personal injury. It's painful, and means you lose money because you have to stay off work. And that's not to mention the hospital visits, costs of prescriptions, taxis, social isolation, intense itchiness.
Now, is it ethically viable to use a No Win, No Fee company to wring as much money out of them as possible?
2 comments:
Is this a trick question?
It's a modern day thought experiment. You know, kind of like, 'is it okay to murder Hitler before he became leader of the Third Reich'?
It's also the sort of thing I think about when working yet another Saturday of overtime. You know, thinking that there's got to be a better way to get the money out of the company, or people in the company, and wondering what it would be...
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