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So you are saying the 27 people killed by a bomber in Iraq today were worth less than the 4 killed in Boston?

My point was this was one person (okay, two brothers originally) what would have happened if it was a team of people who were organized and actually secretive and didn't use twitter or live out in the open?



> So you are saying the 27 people killed by a bomber in Iraq today were worth less than the 4 killed in Boston?

No, the United States Government is saying that, by using the Value of a Statistical Life that they use. So I'm telling you that (by their own terms) they can justify spending a lot of their money on catching someone who has killed several people and intends to kill more.

I do not agree that it makes sense to value US lives at $7M each and developing world lives at apparently less than $2000 each (the approximate price of saving one according to GiveWell). But that's what the link I cited says is the case here.




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