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by BurningFrog 239 days ago
There are also millions who would volunteer to be killed for $12M to pass on to their heirs.

You "statistical death" is of course 100% correct. These kind of tradeoffs are done all the time when designing safety features, and using a monetary value per human life is the right way to do it.

Some people can't deal with that kind of rationality though.