How does that help. "By my weightings, freedom is more important than public health." "My weightings say the opposite." That's where we are today. Putting nu

How does that help. "By my weightings, freedom is more important than public health." "My weightings say the opposite." That's where we are today. Putting numbers on it, numbers that can't be determined except by our personal biases, doesn't help. Here's a fun story about cost benefit analysis in the real world, a bureaucrat deciding which kinds of rape hurt enough to be worth preventing: Criticism: https://gulcfac.typepad.com/georgetown_university_law/ https://gulcfac.typepad.com/georgetown_university_law/ Defense: https://www.theregreview.org/2013/09/13/13-sunstein-cost-benefit/ https://www.theregreview.org/2013/09/13/13-sunstein-cost-ben...