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To: Neeka who wrote (6171)	4/14/2003 3:13:49 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 12245

<What is a human life worth? > M, that depends on the life. Some are very valuable, some have negative value. Saddam was considered by most people to have negative value. Uday even less value if he got hold of the reins. $ill Gates has high value. Dr Jacobs has high value. Note that their value isn't necessarily how much value they own. Indians have low average value. Africans have even lower average value. High IQ people have high value. IQ 70 people have low value, unless they happen to have an AIDS and Sars resistant DNA. Or maybe they have longevity DNA. Value is all over the place. Some $600 a year Indian or African is probably worth $10 billion but their value is unrecognized because they are stuck with struggling for survival in a swamp. I'm worth quite a lot to me, but less to most people. Probably all people. I'm worth less than my offspring - a test would be, how much would I spend to save me and how much to save one of my offspring? Now that I'm older and they're adults and underway, I think I'd have to bow out. People say you can't put a value on human life, but that's not true. What's more they do. Even those who say you can't, do, though they probably don't admit to themselves that they do. The value we put on people is actually quite low - it's mostly big talk and low value. Mqurice

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