agrab0ekim
can you actually find the cost of a human life... are they saying that abortion costs infinate dollars... can anyone have infanate dollars?
The cost of a human life, economically speaking, tends to be about 1.1 to 1.7 million dollars in the US, in some places cheaper.
We can get this by examining safety measures put into effect by local governments. It can be demonstrated that street lights reduce the total number of deaths at intersections by a significant amount... probably thousands of people a year (most likely more than that... I forget the numbers and it's been 2 years since I had that economics class that had the example).
So why don't we put stop lights at every single intersection in order to save those lives that would be saved by them?
Because stop lights cost money. When we find the threshold of "not enough people pass through here for the one or two lives that would be saved to be worth putting up a stop light" we've found the value of a human life - the cost of that street light.
In construction, engineering, automotive design... we find the cost of life even cheaper in some instances. Why aren't cars made of better materials that have more safety options? Because they want to sell cars, and the profit they make per cheap car is more than the profit they make per expensive car.
Human life has a price. Unfortunately that price is cheap. People who don't believe this are naive and only fooling themselves.
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