You're setting up both a strawman and a false dichotomy. People are not arguing that you should win by not showing up. (Unless the suit is clearly fraudulent.)

You're setting up both a strawman and a false dichotomy. People are not arguing that you should win by not showing up. (Unless the suit is clearly fraudulent.) It's just that the default judgment should not be so disproportionate. There is no reason to give a 30K judgment about a 40$ printer. That's almost a 1000x multiplier. A 400$ judgment would have sent the right signal without being crippling.