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Does every living thing have moral value just for being alive, and can a life be priced?

Axis: all life has intrinsic value ... value depends on kind or capacity; lives can be weighed

Hank

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2009-03-19 new Hank holds that a death over 80 is less tragic than one at 40 or 20, and that deaths should be weighed by years of life lost. Dr. Manhattan's Dangle and Brain Crack 00:01:19
2011-06-14 refine Hank says nobody really values every organism for being alive: the bacteria in his mouth have no value and he doesn't care if they die. Google Is Alive! 00:03:35
2013-03-23 refine Hank accepts that a human life can be given an economic value (about $10 million by economists' methods) and locates its value in enabling life rather than preventing death. How Much is a Human Life Worth? 00:03:13