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#198 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There a Price on Human Life?

We put a price on human life all the time, even when it's not explicit. We could make every car cost a million dollars by engineering maximum safety into them. When you think about what we would spend to resurrect someone from the dead if we could,. i'll say we had the power of resurrection, but it cost a billion dollars to resurrect somebody. So is literallya something like a two millionfold difference in the wise allocation of resources there. The fact that it's implicit really doesn't matter. It's still there. And this is just a very uncomfortable fact when you spell it out, especially in a global context....

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