Chapter 15. The Right to Compensation and the Illusion of Zero Risk
Abstract: The ideology of human rights has mutated the right to life into the “right to never suffer,” rejecting the very existence of biological and environmental risk. Linking to the previous chapter, this text demonstrates how “Zero Risk” is the exact flip side of the denial of punishment, placing itself in open conflict with our DNA. The essay analyzes this logical and legal aberration supported by the critiques of authors like Ulrich Beck, Frank Furedi, and Philip K. Howard. From the pretension of applying the predictability of physics to medicine (generating the delirium of defensive medicine and the exodus of doctors), up to criminals compensated for injuring themselves during their crimes. The sense of bewilderment we feel in the face of these rulings is decoded here not as moral annoyance, but as a true “biological rebellion”: our genetic code short-circuits when confronted with a system that forces the antibody to financially compensate the pathogen that is killing it.