What is a life worth?

system3
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What is a life worth?

Postby system3 » Wed Sep 25, 2019 5:37 am

Story A: A thief steals a world-famous painting, worth hundreds of millions of pounds. During his getaway he takes a sick child hostage, and then boards a small boat. But the boat begins to sink. The thief swims away, and you arrive soon after, lowered on a winch from a helicopter as the boat is about to go down. You realize that you can only save one of the child or the painting. Which do you save?
Story B: A world-famous painting has developed a fungus which will destroy it over a few decades unless £10 million worth of restoration is done. You are a philanthropist planning to pay for this work, but you get a request for money from a children's hospital, from which you deduce that £10 million more in resources would be likely to save the lives of two children who would otherwise have died. Do you switch your donation to the hospital instead of the painting?

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