Feinberg is famous for his involvement in these kinds of cases; read more here.
After you read, comment below on how Feinberg does what he does, and how it is similar or different to our Talmud.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
GM, Boston Bombing, 9/11; They all need a way to compensate victims
Feinberg is famous for his involvement in these kinds of cases; read more here.
After you read, comment below on how Feinberg does what he does, and how it is similar or different to our Talmud.
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Sarah Comment #3:
ReplyDeleteFeinberg's first goal was to stand out to the community. Being able to stand out gets you to be noticed by the community. This causes a reactions which results in creating a leader or someone to look up to for the particular area. Feinberg has obviously already accomplished this. He had a goal, his goal was to compensate people who had lost someone or had been injured. This is really good because even though Feinberg did not cause the bombing, he is still helping people who need helping. He is now a person who can be looked up to. He has created a good vibe in the community. Not only does he give back to the community, he gives to people who have lost even though they are complete strangers and even though he is not the causer. This is similar to the Talmud because Feinberg is sort of following the "eye for an eye" rule, only he is the one who is compensating for the people who did harm to the victims. This is also different from the Talmud, because in the Talmud, the person who did the harm is supposed to pay back the amount of damage done. So the person who harms has to compensate. In this case, another person is paying back for what harm has been done. This is good because without people like Feinberg, people who have been harmed from bombings and shootings would not get compensated for the damage done onto them.
Michelle Postolovskiy comment # 4
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sarah B in a way. I think he is doing a good thing by helping people, even though he did not do anything to hurt the people he does help the people who need it. so in a way he is following the talmud but also in a way its not really an eye for an eye because he did not cause the bomb. so he is compensating people but mainly just because he wants to help not really an eye for an eye. With out people like Feinberg the people who need help would probably not get so he is basically fixing the damage that was done by the bomb. In the talmud it says that the person who does the damage is supposed to pay back the amount of damage was done but in this case it is a person who just wants to help. In my opinion Feinberg is doing a really good thing.
Aliya Lofland comment #4
ReplyDeleteI agree with both Sarah Brill and Michelle. I think that what Feinberg is doing is a very helpful mitzvah. The Talmud says that the person who commits the crime is responsible for the compensation needed for the victim. Feinberg is one of the brilliant people who realizes that even though there are so many victims of bombings and shootings, there is no one there who will compensate them, after all, the people that killed and injured the victims are either dead or went to jail. He sees that when the victims need compensation, there is no one to give it to them. That is why Feinberg created this company, to help and compensate people. He saw that there was no literal ‘eye for an eye’, there couldn't be without someone to compensate the victims. I agree with both Sarah and Michelle on the fact that Feinberg did not commit any crimes that he has to compensate for, yet he created a company based on giving money to people and/or their family members who have been killed or injured. It is a hard thing to do, estimate a worth on a limb or a life, but Feinberg and his company does that, and try to compensate as equally as the possibly can.
When Feinberg calculates the amount of monetary compensation each victim is entitled to he has to decide how much each injury is worth. He separates temporary injuries, such as burns or cuts from permanent injuries such as lost limbs saying “People have burns, and that will go away. Some people lost limbs and their lives will never be the same.” Feinberg talked about the cost of a prosthetic device and its impact on an individual’s lifestyle. This idea is similar to the Talmud’s method of comparing the victim to a slave on the marketplace, a convenient method that would give everyone an equal monetary value and then deduct from that value based on the inconveniences caused by the lost limbs.
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