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
| date | change | position | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |