veggibles@lemmy.wtf to World News@quokk.au · 13 days agoAbout 1,000 deaths in France attributable to heat wave.www.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down11
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minus-squareesselllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·13 days agoIn principle you’re quite correct The legal system, in most countries, was never designed to accommodate such a plan sadly. You’ll run into issues proving both forseeability and causation from specific acts to specific outcomes. There’s so many factors and an interdependent system, allocating burden is a challenge for a jury. It can be done, it has been done in specific cases, but a general attribution of blame is going to struggle
In principle you’re quite correct
The legal system, in most countries, was never designed to accommodate such a plan sadly.
You’ll run into issues proving both forseeability and causation from specific acts to specific outcomes.
There’s so many factors and an interdependent system, allocating burden is a challenge for a jury.
It can be done, it has been done in specific cases, but a general attribution of blame is going to struggle
I say we try