What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?
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What Is The Precise Value Of A Human Life?
....in dollars?
....in roubles?
....in roubles?
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The precise value of a human life can be precisely compared to the precise length of a string.
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Lean or Fatty?
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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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I bid 20 camels for the blond wench...
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Are we talking your life or my life?
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I am precious, you are of some worth, he is a waste of oxygen...
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Why should life have value?
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because if it hasn't then depriving people of it is not a crime?
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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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Ah! The joys of circularity.
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Well, that's the basis of civilisation, some values must be erected as such arbitrarily.
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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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take a circle, stroke it, it will become vicious... freely translated from a saying attributed to Sacha Guitry
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About 75 cents, based on the last box of 5.56 I bought.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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