The Washington Post recently published an article on the EPA's reduction of the value of a human being. According to the "Value of Statistical Life", a life is worth 7.22 million dollars, down from 8.04 million. The figure, according to the article, is used, among other things, to measure whether particular safety measures in products should be taken. If reducing pollution would save 40 lives a year, but would cost more than 288.8 million (40 x 7.22), it would not be worth it to put the pollution-reducing restrictions in place.
I am having some difficulty putting pen to paper (or finger to keyboard) and getting ink around my thoughts. Ringing in my head...
1) "The ninety and the nine" song from the 94-year-old British lady in the Chattanooga nursing home (a loud and off key Luke 15 rendition)
2) Sgt. Slaughter's quote "We all go home or nobody goes home" in G.I. Joe: The Movie
3) the value of life in a culture of war and violence
4) how radically different the economy of the triune God still is today
5) how has this thinking infiltrated our churches?
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