The troubling question here isn’t really what price to put on saving lives, but rather why we would divide our resources in such a way that such questions are meaningful in the first place.
We live in a world of great abundance of every measurable sort, and insistence on putting economic expansion ahead of protection of our friends, families, and neighbors would be better analyzed using the lens of ethics rather than that of finance.
We live in a world of great abundance of every measurable sort, and insistence on putting economic expansion ahead of protection of our friends, families, and neighbors would be better analyzed using the lens of ethics rather than that of finance.