Comment by jongjong

The idea of compensating victims proportionally to the value of objects which caused harm is interesting and reveals an interesting mindset.

We are so far removed from this mindset nowadays that it seems illogical. But there is an underlying logic that; the more expensive an object, the more human labor went into building it, the more the owner should pay if it causes harm. There is a notion of "with great power comes great responsibility."

Had we still had these laws, we would look at trains, airplanes and AI very differently and we would never have allowed corporations to exist.

It does seem like there is a deep wisdom in there about the dangers of complex and expensive objects. The creation of complex objects and structures (including abstract ones) is a form of idolatry.