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Old 01-23-2002, 02:15 PM   #11
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Re: Value of Life

Third try:
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Originally posted by jay@af
The question is not "Which button do you press?," but rather...

"How many people must be in the other room for you to choose to save them instead of yourself?"
"Yes" and "no" do not answer the question. We're looking for a number. A number that could hypothetically go as high as ~6 billion (or whatever the estimated human population is nowadays...)
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