religion
Civil damages and reincarnation
<p>If I reincarnate and civil damages persist, does the expected future value become infinite? Or is there a way to deal with this.</p>

<p>Your hypothetical is a non-sequitur, whence it is not amenable to legal remedies.</p>
<p>Legislation does not contemplate the notion or possibility of [natural person's] reincarnation. Or at least you don't point to a specific legal system where the concept of reincarnation is admissible.</p>
<p>Even if a legal system acknowledged the concept of reincarnation, one ought to look at that system's doctrines to ascertain the meaning, purpose, and process of reincarnation. For instance, consider a legal system premised on the idea that the purpose reincarnation is a do-over that frees the individual from the burden of his experiences from previous lives. In that legal system, adjudging and enforcing any &quot;persisting&quot; damages would contravene that purpose because the process inevitably prompts that individual to wrap his head around matters that are supposed to be wiped from his memory and emotions.</p>
<p>In many situations, the notion of &quot;persisting&quot; damages itself is a non-sequitur even in a hypothetical legal system that acknowledges reincarnation. Consider a claim for &quot;pain and suffering&quot; inflicted in a previous life (for instance, because the defendant trampled on the victim). That claim would have to be re-evaluated because (1) most likely that pain and suffering vanished ever since, or perhaps before, that victim's prior incarnation ended; and (2) the matter would absurdly defeat the aforementioned purpose of reincarnation.</p>
