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Comment author: Lumifer 24 December 2013 01:08:17AM *  2 points [-]

I'm not clear what you are driving at? The question was a statistical economic one, or?

Not quite. The question already morphed into what makes crime different from "normal" economic transactions and whether you can represent it as a only slightly different economic transaction.

As a rationalist I obviously have no inhibitions on placing a monetary value on my life.

So which amount of money would you be willing to exchange your life for?

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 24 December 2013 01:32:39AM 0 points [-]

As suicide has a high symbolic value (see my list above; in this case signalling to a large number of persons including to myself and my children) and that is not the kind of exchange I have thought about before (where I considered external causes for (my) life) I cannot easily say so.

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