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- From: ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata - FSO)
- Subject: Re: Protest
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.042407.27816@hfsi.uucp>
- Organization: HFS, Inc., McLean VA
- References: <1992Nov12.005343.15148@alw.nih.gov> <1992Nov13.184538.13667@hfsi.uucp> <Bxqxpx.6D@access.digex.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:24:07 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <Bxqxpx.6D@access.digex.com> dougnews@access.digex.com
- (Doug Humphrey) writes:
- >
- >The safety of the population is *directly* tied to the issue of dollars.
- >
- >>I guess we as a society are going to have to decide whether we
- >>value all human life, or just certain ones. If the answer is all
- >>human life, then the economic argument becomes irrelevant.
- >
- >This is simply not true, and can not be demonstrated. You can not
- >
- >Doug
- >
-
- Well, I guess in your mind you've made the decision that human
- life boils down to a matter of economics. As I said, the question
- is whether society agrees with you. And if it does, what price do
- you put on a human life? Perhaps in addition, each crime a person
- commits should have a positive or negative value to it? If the
- person's net value of a person's life doesn't equal the cost of
- keeping them in prison for an average life expectance, then we
- kill them? Is this what you are advocating? If so, what about a
- poor person who is on welfare for a good portion of their life.
- Perhaps, they will never substantially contribute to society
- anything, and indeed will take from it more than they contribute.
- Should we stop all their benefits so that they will die? After
- all, we could spend that money in more productive ways.
-
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