Comment author:timtyler
24 September 2009 05:11:20PM
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Re: Do we value saving lives independently of the good feelings we get from it?
Sure: there's the issues of rewards, reputation and status to consider. The effect of saving lives on the former may scale somewhat linearly - but the effect on the others certainly does not.
Comment author:granite26
25 September 2009 04:37:42PM
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Valuing lives on a sliding scale makes sense to me... Saving 1 person for X dollars is good citizenship, 100 lives at 100*X is being taken advantage of.
Maybe that's the long and short of it though. We aren't 'buying' lives, we're 'buying' communality.
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Re: Do we value saving lives independently of the good feelings we get from it?
Sure: there's the issues of rewards, reputation and status to consider. The effect of saving lives on the former may scale somewhat linearly - but the effect on the others certainly does not.
Valuing lives on a sliding scale makes sense to me... Saving 1 person for X dollars is good citizenship, 100 lives at 100*X is being taken advantage of.
Maybe that's the long and short of it though. We aren't 'buying' lives, we're 'buying' communality.