Kenneth Feinberg All Lives Are Equal Analysis
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The compensation of sept 11, 2001 and the Virginia tech shootings are proof that human life can be measured in money wise. Are all lives really equal? The people who were confronted with the compensation challange of 9/11 and the Virginia shooting had to decide the value of human life. So the families of the victims could get money for the loss of a family member. “All lives are equal” This is a problem that Kenneth Feinberg had to deal with. Feinberg had to manage the compensation funds where the law required to give more money to the stockbrokers, the bond trader and the banker than to the waiter, the policeman, the fireman and the soldier at the pentagon. “This is what happens everyday in courtrooms throughout our nation. Our system of