Some people sacrifice themselves for a probability that many people will have better lives. Some people sacrifice themselves for a probability that specific pe

Some people sacrifice themselves for a probability that many people will have better lives. Some people sacrifice themselves for a probability that specific people around them will have better lives. It's disingenuous to say that only those who work for some greater good are making sacrifices. Which sacrifice is more "noble"? Unless you know the parameters (magnitude of sacrifice, probabilities of change, incremental impact from your involvement, number of people affected, degree to which lives are bettered), you have no way to evaluate this. (Not that there's anything wrong with making personal value judgments in the matter; they just don't make particularly good arguments.)