$6 billion dollars is a lot of money, but it's also just half of what they profited from what was effectively mass murder. Is that really something you want to let people buy their way out of for less than they profited?
Think of it this way - if you found out your great-grand-uncle was a Nazi official, and that the house you grew up in or the favorable college you got into or whatever lifestyle you had growing up was initially partly funded by his misdeeds? Could your assets be targeted by descendants of the victims and you personally be made bankrupt?
That's a bit of an exaggeration, but a lot of the wealth of the Sackler family is distributed this way. The original brothers have died, there is a huge lump of easily gotten money from the direct family, and then there is a lot of money that has been spread around 2 or 3 generations removed. At a certain point if you want the full $11 billion you are going to have to go into the weeds.
I don't think "partly funded by his misdeeds" is an accurate description.
Members of the Sackler family ran Perdue Pharma and they aren't dead. Sure, a relative of the Perdue Pharma executives should be off limit for liability. But there's still plenty of actual executives that should be held accountable.
> and that the house you grew up in or the favorable college you got into or whatever lifestyle you had growing up
Are we talking about wealth I inherited? About wealth I wrongfully inherited from the wrung necks of the dead? When in this framing do we start to consider where that money should have been vs where it is now? I presumably in this scenario did nothing wrong personally, and yet what wealth do I _deserve_? Do I _deserve_ this wealth extracted by mass destruction enacted by my relatives, granted not by myself, but that someone else would otherwise have?
