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"When my mother got terminal cancer, the last few months of her life became her most valuable." Suppose you have an anti-cancer drug, and two patients in front

"When my mother got terminal cancer, the last few months of her life became her most valuable." Suppose you have an anti-cancer drug, and two patients in front of you. Resources are limited, so you can only cure one of them. - Person A, if they are cured, would live an additional thirty years. - Person B, if they are cured, would live an additional three months. Who are you going to choose? "Point being, the last days are the most valuable" Citation? Saying that your mother felt her last days were the most valuable is just personal opinion, but saying that they are the most valuable, as a generally applicable fact, needs a citation or an argument or something other than simple assertion.

kiba 17y ago
Valuation are necessary subjective, not objective. What are you interested in, it seem, which individual will contribute more to your overall wealth. However, to the dying mother, her time near the end of her life is the most valuable to her. There is no citation to be founded, per se, because you came from a different perspective.
- crystalis 17y ago
  Valuation are necessary subjective, not objective. It's true, this is how I got two bucks in change for a four dollar coffee I spent three dollars on.
  - kiba 17y ago
    I might as well link to Wikipedia's article on the subjective theory of values since you don't get it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value Something of which is valuable to me may not be valuable to another person. However, a "price" is much distinct from "value" as price are exchange ratio for two goods, not the overall utility to a person.
    - crystalis 17y ago
      I might as well quote your Wikipedia article since you don't get it: "If it is true that the economic value of things cannot be ascertained without subjecting a particular good to individual value judgements in a market" Notably, there's a big 'if' and later it intimates some other essential things like the complete lack of studied consensus that might be required to baldly assert it as true in a forum of discussion without a proper background, caveat, or concession. So yes, if you insist that firetrucks are not firetruck red, you should probably disclaim the special point of reference from which you make your claims, or expect people to not kowtow to your every esotericism. That said, fuck your mother's cooling corpse for even a few minutes more of, e.g., Einstein.

kiba 17y ago

Valuation are necessary subjective, not objective. What are you interested in, it seem, which individual will contribute more to your overall wealth. However, to the dying mother, her time near the end of her life is the most valuable to her. There is no citation to be founded, per se, because you came from a different perspective.

crystalis 17y ago
Valuation are necessary subjective, not objective. It's true, this is how I got two bucks in change for a four dollar coffee I spent three dollars on.
- kiba 17y ago
  I might as well link to Wikipedia's article on the subjective theory of values since you don't get it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value Something of which is valuable to me may not be valuable to another person. However, a "price" is much distinct from "value" as price are exchange ratio for two goods, not the overall utility to a person.
  - crystalis 17y ago
    I might as well quote your Wikipedia article since you don't get it: "If it is true that the economic value of things cannot be ascertained without subjecting a particular good to individual value judgements in a market" Notably, there's a big 'if' and later it intimates some other essential things like the complete lack of studied consensus that might be required to baldly assert it as true in a forum of discussion without a proper background, caveat, or concession. So yes, if you insist that firetrucks are not firetruck red, you should probably disclaim the special point of reference from which you make your claims, or expect people to not kowtow to your every esotericism. That said, fuck your mother's cooling corpse for even a few minutes more of, e.g., Einstein.