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Doing that when you are burying your 20 year old son will do it."

In all fairness, I don't think it will do it to an ordinary person. People may well temporarily lose self-control and even kill someone in response to such a grave insult, but to actually experience permanent psychological damage would be amazing. I can imagine it may well happen if someone has a pre-existing vulnerability, which depending on the law may result in them getting nothing (e.g. where I live a person who develops a mental disorder because they are psychologically vulnerable gets zilch). Also, even if someone did develop a mental disorder I find it hard to imagine that a court could quantify their damage at the gigantic figure of $2.9 million. But it seems to me that the decision was not based on the law and the facts of the case save that there was obviously an invasion of privacy, done in an extremely offensive manner, and by people who are likely to be despised by the jury, against people who are likely to have the jury's sympathy. I can hardly think of anyone more deserving of being bankrupted for a political protest, but I don't believe trials are a carte blanche for jurors to punish others based on their personal views of the parties.