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$2 million (or whatever number) may be the standard rate used to compensate others for a lost life, but does anyone willingly sell their life for $2 million? I
by lfam 10y ago
$2 million (or whatever number) may be the standard rate used to compensate others for a lost life, but does anyone willingly sell their life for $2 million?
I think there is a difference between how we try to compensate for the loss of something irreplaceable (a life) or disincentive negligence, and the price of something bought and sold.
- sa46 10y agoIsn't life insurance fraud by suicide selling your life for a chance at money, usually much less than $2 million?
- jonathankoren 10y agoObviously not, because you're not dead.
- mvid 10y agoLife insurance fraud of killing yourself and making it look like it wasn't a suicide in order for your beneficiaries to get the payout. You would very much be dead.
- majewsky 10y agoOkay, let me assume that this is even a thing (I don't know, but you seem to). There are still two fallacies in trying to equate the lost life against the payout: 1. The person committing the suicide and thus the fraud would not be weighing his life against the money, he would be considering the well-being of his beneficiaries instead, and deciding that their well-being is worth more than his life. 2. He cannot reasonably control the payout of the life insurance. Anything beyond a certain mark (maybe 2 million $) would raise a lot of eyebrows in the insurance company.