*** The Official MAGAposting thread ***

[Poopadoop]

I think you missed the point, or I didn't make it clearly enough.

In the case where someone values another's life so much they wouldn't trade it for an infinite amount of money, there's no mathematical model that can be devised that captures that, because there's no universe in which an infinite amount of wealth exists. Just like there's no universe in which we can convert meters to kilograms.

Yes, there may be circumstances in which we can equate money values to lives, but as long as there are any where we can't, the whole notion that somehow there is some universal equation that exists that we just haven't been smart enough to figure out yet is mistaken.

[CoccoBill]

I think you missed the point, or I didn't make it clearly enough.

No I didn't miss it, I'm just saying it's in most cases irrelevant or can be worked around.

Yes, there may be circumstances in which we can equate money values to lives, but as long as there are any where we can't, the whole notion that somehow there is some universal equation that exists that we just haven't been smart enough to figure out yet is mistaken.

No one said equation, and no one even said we need to assign dollar values on everything. We don't have a unified theory or physics, but we still get pretty good mileage out of physics regardless. We don't need an equation, we need a data model, and that's for this to be usable, applicable, and that wasn't even a requirement in all of this, just that it's in theory possible.

[Poopadoop]

We don't need an equation, we need a data model, and that's for this to be usable, applicable, and that wasn't even a requirement in all of this, just that it's in theory possible.

We already have these equations used by insurance companies, etc. My point is that those equations become useless when the lives in question are loved ones.