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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
I don't know how millions of dollars in settlements to victims, forced restructurings, dismissal of all responsible and hopefully civil and criminal charges to those people as well, and a USC-like football suspension... not to mention the massive PR hit, which is going to affect academic and football recruiting for years to come... how does that not constitute punishment? The punishment without the death penalty I imagine is going to be tens of millions of dollars.
If Ford makes faulty cars, you punish them through fines, settlements, and disciplinary action. You're not going to tell them that they're not allowed to make Ford cars anymore for the next 20 years.
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Technically, none of what you're talking about is punishment. The civil settlements will be restitution, the rest basically self inflicted wounds. To use the Ford example, the company would be subject to massive punitive damage awards, and to criminal penalties. I'm honestly not sure whether the NTSB could "de-list" a company. In the pharmaceutical area, if a company does something truly horrific, the FDA can de-list the company and refuse to accept any future applications to market drugs, essentially the death sentence in that area.