> That old saying that you can't put a price on human life It's a nice platitude, but it's obviously untrue. The unstated implication is that a human life actu

> That old saying that you can't put a price on human life It's a nice platitude, but it's obviously untrue. The unstated implication is that a human life actually has infinite value, which is even more obviously untrue. It's easy to find an upper bound on the value of a human life; would you be willing to pay ten trillion dollars of public money (which would otherwise be hypothetically used to finance schools, research, etc.) to save the life of a single child?