Cancer Treatment Options Forum - July 24th, 2010 - 2 Comments
can you evaluate a marginal price of a human life?
e.g. if government adds mln to a cancer clinic budget, it saves 1 life, etc. you can easily see that prices evaluated on data of different activities differ greatly: from .000 by preventing road accidents to this million in medicine.
But all the things the goverment does, works together, so really, really costly
This is wrong, but I’ll play along to educate.
Human Life under your scenario would be zero. If we assign human life the way we do other objects, then human life’s value would be zero <negative actually>. An Example … Your Car’s value: When you buy a car, it’s expensive and insurance premiums are high … the car ages … with each year we depreciate the value and the insurance value decreases too … then the car gets into an accident and is severely damaged … that car is only valued at $2,500.00 <cost less depreciation> and the repair amount is $10,000.00 … ultimately, to repair this vehicle, we’ll need to come up with an additional $7,500.00. So, if we were so cold to place a value to human life, we would be worthless!!! I.e.: cancer would disable our ability to contribute to the GDP of the economy and we’d be sucking all resources to pay for something that we’ll never be able to repay.
Morally this is so wrong because Life is Valuable just because God gave it to us; thereby causing an infinite monetary value on human life. However, I also believe that science sometimes tries to hard to keep us from death. When God’s calls for us we should visit our hearts and souls to meet him. When we use every means <primarily unethical means> to stay alive, we’re insulting God by not coming when he’s calling!!!