Lexi the pain and suffering has got to be worth quite a bit, say $400K direct then flow on effects - you've shared their pain so another $100K for your suffering.

Darwin's reputation has suffered, $1M. A net cost of $1.8M (always have to assume that you've missed something), better make that $2M.

R0bert

Houellebecq...

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds...says Mark Twain.

Dear RObert,

$2M. that's one heavy load!

Anybody ever bothered to work out how much Labor incompetence is costing us ?

I tried to work out what my posting to OLO was costing the economy, then I realised it was $0, since I wouldn't have been doing anything productive anyway. The construction industry is at a standstill.

'you've shared their pain '

Haha that's true R0bert. That study you found said if the violent partner had any contact with colleagues at work, their pain had to be taken into account.

I don't think you can be too thorough. I think they missed out many variables.

House fires; When someone burns their toast due to the depression from violence, and a house fire starts, and then the flow on emotional post traumatic stress disorder of the Firewoman, and the effect on her kids is missed out in the 'generational effects' in the study.

Perhaps in my governmnet department I will have to have a standard 'degrees of seperation coefficient', but I suppose that should come out in the wash once we have finalised the MPEP.

Ross Gittins would be interested in helping with this, he's always going on about Happiness Indicies of the community. So, after he's finished working out the Maximum possible community happiness (It would be hard because everyone follows different football teams so it's a zero sum game in many areas, not to mention love triangles), I will put him to work.

Once we have this Hyperbolic ceiling of the MPEP, I'm sure the feminists will be looking for their equal share in the hyperbolic pie. I'm sure the smokers would be happy to sacrifice some of their allotment, as they're always saying the stress relief they obtain from smoking makes them a net positive. But then the anti-smoking lobby would be lobbying hard for a massive degrees of seperation coefficient. Imagine all the passive smokers they would be claiming. Good thing more women smoke these days, so the feminists could claim smoking is exclusively a women's issues. I'm sure the women smoke because of the pressures of the evil patriarchy, whereas men smoke because they are evil abusive patriarchs.