"When a health care worker makes a mistake, someone can die." Although
             human beings are fallible and will always make mistakes no matter how
             competent they are, the consequences of certain errors are more severe than
             others and therefore should be punished accordingly. Health care workers
             have the lives of human beings in their hands; they should be held
             accountable for their actions even if mistakes were unintentional. Much
             human error is preventable by adequate training or simple concentration;
             therefore, it is not unreasonable to hold accountable health care workers
             and others who are entrusted with human life. In rare cases, typographical
             errors in magazines lead to disastrous consequences. For example, a
             publication can unwittingly libel or slander a person and the correction
             comes too late to undo the damage done. In these cases, the publication can
             be made legally responsible and suffer whatever consequences that entails.
             Basically, human errors should be judged in light of their
             consequences. Errors that cause minor damage should not be punishable to
             the same extent as those that cause major damage. The problem with this
             position is the ambiguity that it naturally entails. Somehow someone must
             weigh the facts and consequences. Victims of a mistake, however small, will
             want to seek legal recourse. It would be unfair to tell the victim of, say,
             the accidental libel or slander, that their grievances are unworthy of
             punishment. Some cases will be totally clear: a health care worker who was
             listening to a Walkman while administering anesthesia who goes on to kill
             the patient out of negligence should suffer the full extent of the law,
             whereas a publisher who spells Madonna's name wrong should not be penalized
             much if at all. The problem is with subjective suffering: if a publication
             misreports a fact, totally by accident, and that misreporting leads to that
             person being ...