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Not that it matters, but the vast majority of the bailout package is loans. >Do you drive a car? If so, by your logic you value your own convenience more than
by cycrutchfield 7y ago
Not that it matters, but the vast majority of the bailout package is loans.
>Do you drive a car? If so, by your logic you value your own convenience more than human lives, because driving kills over a million people and maims tens of millions more people every year.
Why did you shift your argument all of a sudden from comparing the number of human lives lost to putting a dollar value on human lives?
- logicchains 7y agoYour original argument was essentially asserting that the OP was placing too-low a monetary value on human lives. You accused him of valuing his own leisure more than human lives, but then implied it's okay to value economic factors more than lives if the lives lost are sufficiently small (you implied this by suggesting that preventing car accidents is much less important cos it saves fewer lives). You hence implied some ratio between human lives and convenience/the economy; I was exploring that ratio.