It doesn’t make sense to me how the government didn’t ban the paint after hearing that the researchers were assigning monetary value to lives. The usual mistake

It doesn’t make sense to me how the government didn’t ban the paint after hearing that the researchers were assigning monetary value to lives. The usual mistaken followup to “you’re assigning monetary value to a life?” is “but a life is sacred and precious, and all measures should be taken to save them, no matter the cost”, not “money is incomparably more valuable than mere lives”. Some people say that that human-overvaluing mentality partially led to the TSA implementing so many annoying security protocols in airports, because it thought “yeah, these security checks may be really annoying or demeaning, but if they save just one more life they will be worth it”.