August 20, 2020 05:10AM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 5,027
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nearly all questions can be answered empirically and this one certainly can. you may not like or disagree with the assumptions, but it is reasonable to convert lives, jobs and other outcomes into standardized metrics. all these things impact society to varying degrees, thus they need to be accounted for in a policy choice.
let me turn your question around on you, say a policy saved 100, 1000, or 10,000 lives but resulted in a complete economic collapse? is that a positive overall policy? I dont think so. You may hail the immediate saving of lives, but how many more people we die or suffer other fates from the ensuing anarchy of a collapsed economy?
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waterfield
Are you saying saving one life is not worth three losing their jobs ? What about five losing their jobs? 10 ? 20? At what point do YOU see the one life is not worth the economic cost?
How do you feel about the death penalty if 95% of those executed are in fact guilty but 5 % are not guilty of the crime for which they are executed? 95% to !%.?
When must the life of one innocent but executed give way to the value of executing the guilty ?
Point: are there some issues that cannot be examined by a cost benefit analysis? That was my point in the Harvard Law School Tort exam question-if you didn't grasp it.
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