Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
Ask someone if they'd accept some amount of money to have one random person in the world die. It may be a loved one, it may not. If you can get everyone to accept a dollar figure for the x/world population chance they'll lose a loved one, you've got a starting point for your economic life <--> money converter model. Otherwise, I think youre stuck.
Why the insistence on assigning dollar figures? No one is after a life-money converter, we're talking about a moral framework. There are practical situations where there's a need to assign some value on life, but like you said we're already doing it now. That's a specific rather fringe use case, not a foundation to everything.