[spooky69]

I'm okay with imposing financial penalties against for-profit organizations under the following conditions:

-The damages are scaled to the size of the company (big enough to affect change, small enough to be payable without sending them into bankruptcy)
-Awarded only if there was some sort of demonstrable negligence/maliciousness that "needs" to be punished (failure to do proper safety testing, targeting cigarettes at children)

I know this isn't the issue, but in the class of people who hates the lasseiz faire model of business specifically because history has proven that there needs to be a financial (or otherwise) motivation for getting people to do "beneficial" things that they wouldn't otherwise do. That usually takes the form of rewards for following the rules or penalties for not doing so. I'm sure that many aspects of liability law in America are out of control and need to be fixed, but getting your ass sued off is a pretty good motivator for not doing a bunch of lazy/greedy/evil stuff.