What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

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What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by cronus » Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:34 am

....in dollars?

....in roubles?
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Hermit » Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:36 am

The precise value of a human life can be precisely compared to the precise length of a string.
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by rainbow » Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:49 am

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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Svartalf » Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:54 am

depends... to start with, Weregild laws diverged vastly between the Merovingian kingdom and, say medieval Iceland... not to mention that the value of life depends also on the slain person's status noble, free, slave...
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Post by JimC » Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:07 am

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Post by pErvinalia » Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:11 am

Are we talking your life or my life?
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by JimC » Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:18 am

I am precious, you are of some worth, he is a waste of oxygen...
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Scot Dutchy » Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:38 am

Why should life have value?
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Svartalf » Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:43 am

because if it hasn't then depriving people of it is not a crime?
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by cronus » Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:44 am

Scot Dutchy wrote:
Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:38 am
Why should life have value?
As oil runs out the energy that can be obtained by thirty or forty slaves might be more profitable than that produced by shale/tar sands?
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Hermit » Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:42 am

Scot Dutchy wrote:
Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:38 am
Why should life have value?
Svartalf wrote:
Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:43 am
because if it hasn't then depriving people of it is not a crime?
Ah! The joys of circularity.
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Svartalf » Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:54 am

Well, that's the basis of civilisation, some values must be erected as such arbitrarily.
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Hermit » Fri Jul 20, 2018 12:16 pm

Svartalf wrote:
Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:54 am
Well, that's the basis of civilisation, some values must be erected as such arbitrarily.
Not something I disagree with: The value of a human life is arbitrary. Doesn't make your previous post any less circular, though.
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by Svartalf » Fri Jul 20, 2018 12:23 pm

take a circle, stroke it, it will become vicious... freely translated from a saying attributed to Sacha Guitry
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Re: What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?

Post by laklak » Fri Jul 20, 2018 2:01 pm

About 75 cents, based on the last box of 5.56 I bought.
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