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The value of a human life (and why abortion, economics, pulling the plug and triage)

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The value of a human life (and why abortion, economics, pulling the plug and triage)
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RE: The value of a human life (and why abortion, economics, pulling the plug and triage)
June 23, 2010 at 9:13 pm
(June 23, 2010 at 9:04 am)rjh4 Wrote: But now it seems that you have abandoned the idea of potentiality for a standard of comparing the actual achieved level or current level of development. The latter seems much different than the former and the analysis for each would probably give different results.

As we cannot know the future, nor precisely chart out the actual worth of a human being at any time, this graph is functionally useless but for what I meant to communicate - that people are worth more or less over time due to lack of complete growth/degeneration of mental facilities and physical body (as in age).
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RE: The value of a human life (and why abortion, economics, pulling the plug and triage) - by Autumnlicious - June 23, 2010 at 9:13 pm

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