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Do you know 100 people? Pick one. Crass, no? So what if it's 1%. It's life. Nothing else matters.
by throwaway55554 7y ago
Do you know 100 people? Pick one.
Crass, no? So what if it's 1%. It's life. Nothing else matters.
- orangecat 7y agoSo what if it's 1%. It's life. Nothing else matters. Should we shut down the country and quarantine ourselves during every flu season? In an average year the flu kills about 0.01% of the population, and nothing else matters but trying to save those tens of thousands of people, right?
- throwaway55554 7y agoIt would certainly not be a bad idea.
- theonemind 7y agoWe don't like to think about it explicitly, but human life has a market or dollar value. You can figure it out by how much we spend on things like safety measures and court settlements and judgments for deaths. As it turns out, it runs about $7 million per person in the United States. That does make some sense. None of us picked the circumstances of our birth, but we have billions of people because of the economy, because we don't all grow our own food, because some people specialize in scientific research, etc. Now, we have billions of people that depend on a functioning economy, and if it doesn't function, people will die that way as well.