Comment by jkaplowitz
5 months ago
You know that the prison time he was given does not rule out compensation and damages but rather might be in addition, right?
The company can still sue for those damages, and they can take all the findings of law and findings of fact from the criminal case as already proven without having to reprove those.
>But we are discussing what is morally appropriate punishment for this misdeed, not what current law allows.
Even if you had not said that, your argument ignores my point.
> Even if you had not said that, your argument ignores my point.
I don’t think I am. You argued against compensation and damages, which are not at all ruled out by the prison sentence, and said you’d seriously consider the prison time if given the option.
I assume mean that you’d consider the prison time as an alternative to the compensation and damages, but that’s not what happened here. Did you actually mean you’d consider the prison time whether or not the company could still sue you in civil court for damages and whether or not the criminal sentencing court could also order financial restitution?
If so, I guess I did miss that implication, but it seems unlikely. Maybe you would want the free lodging and food in that scenario due to the career and financial difficulties that will result from this, even if the free options on offer are a prison cell and prison food?
I think very few people with a spouse or kids (or elderly parents) depending on them would make the same choice, but I can see how some young single people might.