The Law Isn't Working - It's Not Working, Right?

The legal rule that compensates victims in their families based on their lost income looks quite unfair, he says. "It's as if the law is saying that the wealthy person's life is worth a lot and the poor person's lives are worth not that much," writes Bergen. The disconnect between common sense notion of what's fair and what the legal system produces is allowed to sort of chug along until there's a big spotlight thrown on it, like there was in nine 11, right?