> consider a particular type of predictable "accident" acceptable That doesn't actually happen in modern liability cases, because the system shares your intuit

> consider a particular type of predictable "accident" acceptable That doesn't actually happen in modern liability cases, because the system shares your intuitions. If a car manufacturer's defense in class action lawsuit is, "Yeah, but it's only a few people," the court will bankrupt them with punitives on the spot. This isn't about giving people a free pass to hurt small numbers of people, it's about assuming they're responsible when they make things that hurt people, rather than wasting time figuring out responsibility from first principles after every single incident.