Government-inflicted harm warrants a higher-order remedy than private harm
Evidence
Governmental harm is of a higher magnitude than harm at the hands of private parties. It creates a devastating loss because our government is supposed to provide protection and not leave us vulnerable or exploit us. Such a unique experience of harm should influence the remedies we consider. Reparations, which is an extraordinary remedy, should be available for the types of harm that black Americans have suffered, particularly given how other groups have received payments from the government. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 31
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Establishes the harm hierarchy that justifies reparations as an extraordinary remedy — key to the legal brief.
Related
- Governmental harm merits the extraordinary remedy of reparations because government promises protection (similarity 0.94)
- Reparations means compensation for government-caused or government-failing-to-prevent harm (similarity 0.81)
- The US government has paid reparations to non-black groups but never to black Americans. (similarity 0.80)
- Every reparations program pays far less than the actual harm suffered (similarity 0.80)
- Reparations are a completion of American democracy rather than a departure from it (similarity 0.80)
- Black harm spans all case-study types, demanding community-based reparations not just cash (similarity 0.78)
- Black harms span multiple categories requiring community-based reparations beyond cash (similarity 0.78)
- Reparations cannot be more divisive than the harms they would right (similarity 0.78)