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- Path: sparky!uunet!hfsi!ata
- From: ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata - FSO)
- Subject: Re: Protest
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.182512.28088@hfsi.uucp>
- Organization: HFS, Inc., McLean VA
- References: <1992Nov19.042759.7655@hfsi.uucp> <Bxzst3.n4n@access.digex.com> <By12EM.IKr@access.digex.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:25:12 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <By12EM.IKr@access.digex.com> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:
- >In article <Bxzst3.n4n@access.digex.com> dougnews@access.digex.com (Doug Humphrey) writes:
- >>In article <foo.042759.7655@hfsi.uucp> ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata - FSO) writes:
- >>>
- >>>I think that there are two issues here that are being confused.
- >>>The first is placing a monetary value on life so that one may make
- >>>a decision on whether to *actively* kill that person. That is, if
- >>>a certain monetary value is not met, then the person is executed
- >>>or killed. The other is placing a monetary value on expenditures
- >>>necessary to *prevent* a human death. This is placing a monetary
- >>>value in the passive sense. I maintain that the two situations
- >>>are different and should not be mixed. Although we quite
- >>>frquently do the latter, I don't believe that we have ever had a
- >>>policy of doing the former. Perhaps you have an example of the
- >>>former being done?
- >>
- >
- >
- >I would say the former is done fairly regularly. ask anyone who doesnt have
- >health insurance and needs to see a doctor. it's not direct, but htye
- >can get killed just as easily as if you pull a trigger.
- >
-
- I'm not really arguing the end result, death. However IMHO, your
- example is a good one for the latter case.
-
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