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I'm not talking about lawsuit awards. I'm talking about how people themselves rate the value of lives against other finite values. It doesnt come up "infinite".No, not at all. Car companies do the same calculation when deciding whether or not to have a recall for a known defect. The cost of the recall is measured against the value of the lives lost as measured in the car company's estimate of the court's probable awards to victims.
Does that mean that human life has a finite value? No. The court often relies on an economist's estimate of the income potential of the lost one to the beneficiary. Is the value of a human life merely a function of one's income potential? Sorry, that doesn't help your argument.
My sense is that "infintite value" is just a platitude because it explains nothing about how people actually behave. Show me any way we can tell that we value human lives infinitely.
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