Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o...
by Metacelsus on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:52PM
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>I'm not a fan of cost-benefit analyses when it comes to human lives
What about when you measure the costs as lives vs. lives? E.g. spending X dollars on airport security saves Y lives, but spent on highway safety saves Z lives.
Re:20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes o...
by moogly on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:33PM
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As someone else wrote in this thread, there's absolutely no way to know how many were saved from potential harm, so that's a useless contradistinction.
What about when you measure the costs as lives vs. lives? E.g. spending X dollars on airport security saves Y lives, but spent on highway safety saves Z lives.