Is each life worth something?

[The2ndWheel]

Other than political points.

If they are, how can we continue trotting out these 10, 15, 20 year plans? For example, we'll eradicate poverty by 2025. Until then, if you're one of the unlucky ones that doesn't get helped between today and 2025, sorry. Or is it a case of sacrificing 1 life to save 10,000? Or do these problems never go away, just change shape, and we keep trying to catch up, only to make the problem a little harder to handle each time?

[bryant69]

1. I don't know if this sort of analysis is beneficial

But if we are going to play this game, here's a few more.

Would you sacrifice one life today if you had some assurety it would save 10 tomorrow? Or 100? I mean you can't know for sure what the future holds, so those 10 or 100 might die anyway.

Would you sacrifice an old person who'd live most of her life to save a young person who was just starting and out and could contribute to society for decades?

Bryant
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[havocmom]

2. The real problem is not deciding whether each life has value

Rather, WHO decides.

[kiki]

3. Some are worth nothing.

Less than nothing, in fact.

By way of an example - ladies and gentlemen, Mr Karl Rove.

[Sinti]

4. Yes... each life has a value

Way back in the day, I recall Reagan has them do a study on this. Each American life was worth $76.12 or somesuch.

Seriously though, life seems to lose more and more of its value all the time. Most of us are simply replaceable cogs in the machine that feeds the greed monster. IMO these long-term plans, most of which have little real substance to them, are just a fairytale created to quiet discontent. Every 8 years or so they come up with a plan to get the elementary kids better educated, saying it's too late for the older ones - which were the elementary kids that were supposed to get better educated in the last round of changes.

The problems don't go away, because they serve a purpose. We need a huge mindset change if you want to see the quality of average human life become more important than the money and power of TPTB. Maybe next century...