"We think it is a wrongful action by the government".
Hampton defines a wrongful action as one that is disrespectful of a person's value, conveying the view that the wrongdoer is superior in value to his victim.
Critics of Steiner's view argue that it is not sufficient for performing an evil action to take pleasure in performing a wrongful action since we would not think that it was evil to take pleasure in performing a wrongful action if the victim did not suffer significant harm.
One controversial answer to this question is that nothing more is required: an evil is just a very wrongful action (Russell 2007).
If a claimant establishes that a public authority's wrongful action amounts to a tort, he or she may be able to obtain exemplary damages if it can be shown that the authority has been guilty of "oppressive, arbitrary or unconstitutional action" in the exercise of a public function.
According to Steiner, the extra quality shared by all evil actions and lacking from merely wrongful actions, is the perpetrator's pleasure; evil action consists in taking pleasure in doing wrong, no merely wrongful action is pleasurable for its doer (for more about Steiner's theory of evil see Section 3.4).
The proposal, which calls for $10 million for each player, could put the city in a financial bind, because its insurance policy covers only $5 million for "wrongful action," with a $500,000 deductible.
She has filed a wrongful termination action against TRW.
The death was ruled an accident, but the boy's parents filed a wrongful death action against The Sanford Land Co. and the Sanford Family Partners.
Seeking a judicial remedy, Hernandez's parents filed a wrongful death action in federal district court in Texas against the Department of Homeland Security, the Border Patrol and other agencies, as well as Mesa.
Officer Michael Carey, who was recently named a defendant in a wrongful death action by the Sean Bell estate, has filed a counter-claim, seeking to sue the Bell estate for a leg injury he sustained when his van collided with Bell's car.
