WHY YOU HAVE A DUTY TO THE COMMUNITY TO
PURSUE YOUR CASE:
If the wrongdoer does not pay these outstanding
bills, and the injured person is not able to pay
these bills, then who does? The community
does. The community pays in the form of higher
taxes to pay for these unpaid injuries and cover tax
breaks that are given medical facilities and
hospitals due to these unpaid bills. The
community pays in the form of medical facilities
and hospitals raising their rates; they have to
cover their losses somehow. So those who CAN
afford to pay medical bills are forced to pay higher
amounts for medical bills due to those
wrongdoers who cause the injury being unwilling
to pay for their actions. So either the community is
forced to suffer by paying higher medical bills and
taxes because it refuses to hold criminal,
dangerous, or irresponsible behavior responsible
by refusing to force these wrongdoers to pay. The
community suffers because it endorses
dangerous and criminal behavior and by doing so
causes more of it to happen, which causes more
injuries and death to happen.
These are the ancient reasons why the law,
developed over hundreds of years, has chosen to
hold wrongdoers responsible. This is why the law
requires that if you commit a crime, disobey a
regulation or rule, or engage in dangerous activity,
and you cause harm to another, that the law
requires you to take responsibility for your actions
and pay for the harm you caused.
These are also the reasons why if you have been
hurt by someone else who chooses to violate the
law, who chooses to disobey a regulation, who
chooses to engage in dangerous behavior, the
reasons above are why you have a duty to the
community at large to pursue your case and force
the wrongdoer and his insurer to admit
responsibility, to send a message to the
community that this behavior will not be
encouraged or endorsed, and to force the
wrongdoers pay for what they choose to do. This
will will deter at least some people from repeating
criminal, regulation breaking, rule breaking, and
dangerous behavior. In the process you will do
your part in saving the health and lives of those
people who would otherwise have been caused
personal injury or death if you had chosen not to
pursue your case. You will do your part in helping
to place the burden of this type behavior on those
where it properly belongs . . . on the person or
people who caused the death or injury, rather than
on the community or on the innocent victim.