and let who will be clever

     This is supposedly a bit of Irish legal cleverness: if someone  runs over a farmer's pig, paying to replace the pig is not adequate compensation, because the pig would have had piglets, which would have had grandpiglets, and so on, so the farmer should be paid for all of these, as well as compensation for the original pig. Never mind that paying for a replacement pig would also restore the piglets and grandpiglets, Irish courts supposedly upheld this logic. Would the same courts, by the same logic, tell us what adequate compensation for the wrongful death of a person would be?