Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever, 10 months ago

Because it disproportionately impacts the poor, likely doesn’t result in much actual support, AND can be used to justify lesser sentencing otherwise.

A poor person kills someone? They are beggared, the family doesn’t really get anything, and the world moves on.

A rich person kills someone? Well, they already are suffering enough so let’s just go with the child support. And then they likely stiff the bill anyway because their lawyers can argue that it isn’t even worth mailing the pocket change every month.

Weregilds have historically been how the rich get away with murder and how the poor are turned into slaves.