Bava Kamma 85 - Payments for Pain and for Loss of Employment

How do we calculate compensation for pain? We assess how much money a person wants to give to have his hand -that is anyway inscribed to the government for amputation - anesthetized, to avoid the difference between amputation by sword and amputation by potion, presumably painless.

How do we calculate loss of employment? We view the victim as though he were a watchman of cucumbers, since this is all he can in his current state without a hand. And if you say that the person will earn more when he recovers – that payment is already included in the payment for his hand.

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