They tend to work hard and start businesses . So good . <| sep |> I would like it if all capes had a tele to their masters . But I personally choose the accumulator over my cape when I do metal dragons . <| sep |> Interestingly , tort law actually creates a perverse incentive to do this . Criminal penalties and tormenting guilt aside , in most US states , you ' d be better off killing a child than maiming one . In law suits , economic damages are calculated based on what it will take to put the plaintiff in the same position financially that they would have been in had you not injured them or their property . So if you kill a breadwinner for a family of four , that family could file a wrongful death suit against you , and if they won , you ' d be responsible for paying that family what the deceased person would have earned in support of the family over the course their life . Alternatively , if you maim a child , you ' d have to pay them the cost of all their future medicalmobility expenses . But if you kill a child , and the kid ' s parents file a wrongful death suit against you , they can ' t really recover any economic damages , because a child doesn ' t really contribute anything financially to its parents . Now what about noneconomic damages like pain and suffering you say . Surely there can be no pain in the world greater than losing a child right ? Well many states have enacted laws that place a ceiling on noneconomic damages , usually less than a few hundred thousand dollars , which is way less than the cost of a lifetime expenses arising from medical complications and the cost associated with a serious disability . So there ' s your warm thought for the day after thanksgiving .