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How much would a person pay to avoid their own death? I'm not willing to give up skiing, despite that doing so would slightly decrease the probability of accide
by slavik81 10y ago
How much would a person pay to avoid their own death? I'm not willing to give up skiing, despite that doing so would slightly decrease the probability of accidental death. I enjoy it too much, and there's no point in living a life without joy.
Similarly, there is a limit as to what the human race as a whole is willing to give up to prevent extinction. For example, it's not worth it to put every person on Earth into a lifetime of miserable slavery just to decrease the odds of extinction from 1% to 0.9%.