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Dead disabled girl has same rights as unimpaired person: Japan court

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No second-class citizens.

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agree wallace

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Who was the cretin judge deciding otherwise in the lower Court? He should be impeached and never allowed on the bench. He doesn't know Japan's constitution stating that all citizens have the same rights.

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Good decision.

but the price should not be determined by how much someone could have earned in the first place.

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The lower court judge needs to take a good hard look at himself.

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What a bizarre concept, that the value of a person depends directly on how much money they would earn working if alive. That means, for example, that a dedicated housewife’s life would be worse less than a successful illicit drug dealer. Who get’s the person’s earnings equivalent, and why would they deserve it?

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That this is a "thing" is truly unbelievable.

When countless numbers of people have been working tirelessly for decades to tear away the discrimination faced by those with "disabilities".

That a lower court judge could bring such a ruling only 2 years ago reinforces the fact that the judicial system still has a way to go concerning human rights.

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I guess in Japan under the constitution ALL CITIZENS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME CITIZENS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. Unless you’re non “citizen” then the constitution doesn’t apply. So glad the dad took them to court to show how discriminatory some companies/laws and courts can be at times.( I only say companies in this case cause I’m sure the insurance company was very happy at the first ruling. I thought all life was equal. No parent should have to go through what he has. Glad he won!

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Japanese law is quite capricious.

How can you make a ruling based on future earnings when it's impossible to predict the future occupation?

Why not punish people who murder children/ teens/ young adults with loss of future life sentences?

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Car accident deaths are covered by insurance who pay the compensation.

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All lives matter.

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Just a little devil's advocate, I'm not really sure what my ethical stance on this is but I do get it that if the breadwinner of a family (I'll use the he pronoun) is killed then it seems the insurance company should try ensure his dependents are kept in a lifestyle similar to what they were living before the event. In the UK we have a basic 15,000 award for any death and then the rest is calculated on other factors like potential earnings and contributions to dependents (housework, carework etc).

According to Chat the Japanese ruling actually puts Japan ahead of the UK in terms of a more inclusive approach.

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*Chatgbt

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To the editors: "Deceased" would be a better word choice here than "dead".

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TMB, real good hit with the pan. Japan young lady hearing impaired with family was driven down by a car with a japan driver.

If, japan young lady perfect hearing is driven down by a car with a japan driver? Keep it stupid simple. same consequences for the guilty driver.

D in the pan...japan young lady was the bread maker?????

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please 24343 whatever. When quite clearly plagiarizing from the last page of Orwell's animal farm remind yourself that the adult/children's book was based upon the swine replacing the equius? as the controlling animals. I am willing to be corrected or reprimanded on the species. I did not do biology an dunno know how to use catgp stuff. (wah where is a GP car).

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Awful thing to have to put a value on a human life and ¥43 million doesn’t seem like an awful lot of money either. Many territories use loss of income as the test for compensation. Some of those territories consider children essentially worthless compensation-wise, so in some respects this award is quite progressive. But it can’t repair broken hearts.

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This is an "of course!" type of story to me. What was the lower court thinking?

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Japan. Practice what you " Preach "

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