It’s Not About the Money
It’s Not About the Money
This chapter turns to the case in favour of the wrongdoer repairing the losses that they caused to the person wronged. The literature on repair by wrongdoers often emphasizes reconciliation, although the chapter questions this emphasis. It asks if reconciliation is always desirable and, if so, why repair by the wrongdoer of losses that were caused by the wrongdoer is an effective way to achieve it. There must be an independent case for such repair that makes it a suitable strategy of reconciliation. The chapter advances such an independent case, namely the case that, by repairing the losses the wrongdoer caused, they come closer to doing what they should have done in the first place. More precisely they conform, as far as can still be done, to reasons that they did not conform to when they failed in their duty.
Keywords: loss, reparation, reconciliation, fallback duty, duty of repair, remedies for wrongdoing
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