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Originally Posted by Fuzz
It probably serves as good precedent. So if say, a company causes a fire like this, they may be able to afford it. If they fined him $500 000, a company could argue they aren't being treated fairly when they get hit with a big fine by pointing to this one.
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Agreed - if they had not set this precedent I can only forsee all the big corporations being all.....corporationey and deciding it is cheap enough for them to start forest fires given the penalties are so low. Now they are no longer incentivized to start fires like they used to.
