Is it fair that.....?

Question

Is it fair that a footballer (those people who are grossly overpaid for playing a schoolyard game) be awarded £4.3 MILLION in compensation for a broken leg which ended his career when honest hardworking soldiers who are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan having lost arms and legs can only be awarded, BY LAW, less than £0.5m?

Answer 1

No its not fair at all.

This world is messed up  

Answer 2

definitely unfair!

Answer 3

Correct me if I'm wrong but, it's not the government who award footballers compensation when they break their legs.  It will be the insurance policy which they have taken out themselves to safeguard their earnings in the event that they are injured and cannot go to 'work'.  Footballers have to pay for this.

If the soldiers took out a similar insurance policy they would be able to claim large amounts of financial compensation too.  But of course it would be too expensive and probably not worth it.  However, I do agree that if someone has put their life in danger for their country regardless of whether they agree with the reasons, they should be entitled to much more that they get.  The argument that they volunteered for it is not valid.

I don't think the comparison with a footballer is a fair one.  It would be interesting though to compare the difference between what a seriously injured soldier can claim and how much money is wasted on politicians expenses.  

Answer 4

its not easy getting into NFL

and if they did give that much money to soldiers

wouldnt that drain out goverment money?

Answer 5

no it is NOT fair - nor is it fair that most professional athletes make what they make but look what we pay our teachers....another injustice.

Answer 6

You have to remember that football is a business, i'm not saying it is right but this kid may have had a fantastic career ahead of him. But yes it is a ridiculous sum of money when there's soilders dying for a cause not their own in the middle east.  

Answer 7

is it fair that a footballer ends that outrageous amount of money

and a surgeon who tries to make them better and saves other lives does not even earn a quarter of that amount and yet still gets sued for trying to save someone's life and is accused to killing them? plus gets a ll their life savings taken away from them?

life is not fair.

Answer 8

no, it's not fair

it's just the footballer (man united) has better lawyers

Answer 9

AWFULL argument i know, but, they did volunteer

Answer 10

It is a shame that the priorities of human beings have been focused towards our means of entertainment and not our protection. yes they volunteered and yes it can be questionable whether a war is right or wrong. but they still made a sacrifice for your protection and although many of them would ask for nothing in return. they deserve more.

Answer 11

It may not be fair, but in the capitalist world of commerce, it is the market that counts and in the market a foot-baller's potential earnings is what counts. A lad from the council estate may be doing a great job, risking his life for Queen and country, but back in ole Blimey he stands to earn peanuts even if he lived for another 60 years and has all his limbs intact.

Answer 12

Military are scum and need to b treated as such, like t**d.

Answer 13

I agree it is unfair.

But should they have been sent to Afghanistan and Iraq in the first place?

Answer 14

No its not fair.

But do you watch football at the grounds? What about on TV? The commercial channels? How about on the subscription channels? Maybe pay-per-view?

Everyone who watches football contributes to the money in the game. So we the fans are partly to blame for the sky high salaries. With the current amounts that professional footballers can earn, the club's insurers got off lightly.

What are we going to do? Stop watching football? Not likely - remember Bill Shankly, he said "'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."

The soldiers could not be expected to earn more than £0.5M during the remainder of their Army career had they not been injured. However the injured soldiers of today fare better than those of the first world war or even the second world war.

Answer 15

Hmm i wish i could answer this but i dont know anything about fairness in Politics or Football. But my preschool comonsence says that people who are apart of illegal dog fighting shouldn't go to jail.

Answer 16

No you're right - it isn't fair at all  

Answer 17

its never been fair. our servicemen and women who do a bloody good job have always been under paid. to the army they are indispensable. there's always someone else willing to do his job so they are not bothered which is wrong.

if all servicemen and women refused to work for the army, they would have no choice but to change the payout system.