KillingTime
Diary of a Hit Man
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Pricing and Value
Topic courtesy of WriterGirlBlue:
Do you pay for sewer with your water bill? Have you ever gotten a garbage bill? I suppose they're somehow putting a price on that garbage?
The doctor performs a service. He bills you for it. Is he putting a price tag on your health? OK, maybe not the best example.
Valuing a person's life implies that their life has value to me, doesn't it? It's not like buying an object, where you can say, this car is worth X, and maybe add a little markup for the dealer.
When a building is demolished, nobody's making a value statement about the building. Again, not a perfect example, because except with government intervention usually it's the building owner having it demolished.
"Hello, Mr. Target. I've been hired to kill you for $25000. Would you care to offer a counter bid?"
Nah, I don't think so.
7:49 AM (Home/top)
Topic courtesy of WriterGirlBlue:
I still don't understand how it is possible to put a price tag on human life. $25,000. Maybe *you* think of it as putting a price on how "complex" the taking of that life will be, but in the end you're still valuing the peron's life.
Do you pay for sewer with your water bill? Have you ever gotten a garbage bill? I suppose they're somehow putting a price on that garbage?
The doctor performs a service. He bills you for it. Is he putting a price tag on your health? OK, maybe not the best example.
Valuing a person's life implies that their life has value to me, doesn't it? It's not like buying an object, where you can say, this car is worth X, and maybe add a little markup for the dealer.
When a building is demolished, nobody's making a value statement about the building. Again, not a perfect example, because except with government intervention usually it's the building owner having it demolished.
"Hello, Mr. Target. I've been hired to kill you for $25000. Would you care to offer a counter bid?"
Nah, I don't think so.
7:49 AM (Home/top)
Comments:
Sorry kt, but you can't just give me a "supply meets demand" style of answer on this one. You're talking about human life here!
As far as I'm concerned, we're all connected in a spiritual sort of way. If you take the life of one person, you take a part of my life too, and your life as well for that matter. Call it damaging a part of your "soul" if you like, I don't know. It doesn't matter if that wasn't one of the best parts of you either - each of us is a part of each other. Whether in the eyes of "God" or some other religious icon or belief, or in the aspect of the fact that we are all living on this hunk of rock we call earth together.
And - because it's wrong. Billions of people who think killing is a crime can't be entirely off the mark.
As far as I'm concerned, we're all connected in a spiritual sort of way. If you take the life of one person, you take a part of my life too, and your life as well for that matter. Call it damaging a part of your "soul" if you like, I don't know. It doesn't matter if that wasn't one of the best parts of you either - each of us is a part of each other. Whether in the eyes of "God" or some other religious icon or belief, or in the aspect of the fact that we are all living on this hunk of rock we call earth together.
And - because it's wrong. Billions of people who think killing is a crime can't be entirely off the mark.
Oh... Because it's wrooong.
Thank you, Buffy.
Eh, screw it. I hadn't had enough coffee yet when I posted. I haven't slep since then, and I'm not awake enough to make coherent arguments. Since I can barely type/spell, I'm going to sleep. Maybe in...OK, many hours, I'll try again. Or maybe not. Goodnight?
Thank you, Buffy.
Eh, screw it. I hadn't had enough coffee yet when I posted. I haven't slep since then, and I'm not awake enough to make coherent arguments. Since I can barely type/spell, I'm going to sleep. Maybe in...OK, many hours, I'll try again. Or maybe not. Goodnight?
Great post, I have the same point of view. We have most of these modern problems, because people started asking what is the real value of a human being's life. The answer to me would be priceless.
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