# The Injustice of Strictly and Literally Making Victims Whole, Such as All Children

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**Category:** Elliot Temple
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**Created:** [September 3, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/the-injustice-of-strictly-and-literally-making-victims-whole-such-as-all-children/2104 "2025-09-03T16:03:00Z")
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#### Post date: [September 24, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/the-injustice-of-strictly-and-literally-making-victims-whole-such-as-all-children/2104/10 "2025-09-24T15:32:19Z")

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> [@Eternity](#):
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> Something I remember about liability and stuff, from Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences:
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> > For all practical purposes, the omnipresent tort tax we pay today was conceived in the 1950s and set in place in the 1960s and 1970s by a new generation of lawyers and judges.
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> I’m having trouble finding a different quote from the book where he mentions that this was done very fast (for the legal world) and by a few set lawyers.

That’s really interesting to me. I have a low opinion of the current system where many civil cases are very expensive in terms of lawyer bills. But I didn’t guess it was a recent problem. I’m curious who changed it, how, why, what it was like before that, etc.

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