You're not allowed to end it all. Ever.

[Jenny A]

The point is merely that we don't have unlimited resources. Therefore spending a lot of money so that just one person might reconsider is not worth it.

Bullshit. We spend and waste tons of money on many other things. Why is this any different?

Maybe this would also force people to reconsider a rent control works and how taxes are collected in the city.

But you don't care about that, do you? It's all zero-sum game, right?

Well that was rather hyperbolic.

It doesn't matter how taxes are assessed or collected or whether there is or isn't rent control (though I bet there would be more tax money if there weren't)---we still won't have an unlimited amount of money.

The bridge barrier may well be worth the expense, but not if it's only going to cause one person to reconsider suicide. That kind of emotional, spend the world to save one person thinking is hardly thinking at all.