#human life
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man’s human existence… In such vital matters blind reliance upon “experts” and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics… Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups of scholars and specialists. Economics deals with society’s fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.
— Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, pp. 874-875
“Engineers and architects are never asked to build unbreakable structures, impregnable walls. Instead, they are given a monetary budget and asked to do the best they can, according to certain criteria, within that constraint. Or they may be told: the bridge must bear a weight of ten tons, and must withstand gales three times more forceful than the worst ever recorded in this gorge. Now design the most economical bridge you can that meets these specifications. Safety factors in engineering imply monetary valuation of human life. Designers of civilian airliners are more risk-averse than designers of military aircraft. All aircraft and ground control facilities could be safer if more money was spent. More redundancy could be built into control systems, the number of flying hours demanded of a pilot before he is allowed to carry live passengers could be increased. Baggage inspection could be more stringent and time-consuming.
The reason we don’t take these steps to make life safer is largely one of cost. We are prepared to pay a lot of money, time and trouble for human safety, but not infinite amounts. Like it or not, we are forced to put monetary value on human life. In most people’s scale of values, human life rates higher than non-human animal life, but animal life does not have zero value. Notoriously, the evidence of newspaper coverage suggests that people value life belonging to their own race higher than human life generally. In wartime, both absolute and relative valuations of human life change dramatically. People who think it is somehow wicked to talk about this monetary valuation of human life - people who emotionally declare that a single human life has infinite value - are living in cloud-cuckoo-land.”
- Richard Dawkins, ‘Science in the Soul’
Members of the Red Warriors – an anti-fascist street gang who patrolled the Paris suburbs in the 1980s and violently confronted fascists
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39/365 Cup on cabinet
What’s the difference between an anti-masker/anti-vaxer and a pro-choicer?
A pro-choicer doesn’t believe a fetus is a living human being and thus aborting him/her isn’t murder.
An anti-vaccine/anti-masking COVIDIOT knows people who die of COVID are living human beings AND THEY STILL DON’T GIVE A SHIT IF THEY DIE WHEN COVIDIOTS SPREAD COVID.
Human life in 23 seconds
Imagine Loki having a relatively normal human life. Goes to work, pays his taxes, studies for his finals… you know, what your average college student usually deals with. However, there’s a catch. His parents’ divorce, playing loudly in the background, and the consequent split of their mob creates the biggest battle between gangs Yggdrasil City has ever seen.
They say old people are like kids because they’re foolish and don’t produce money. But I think they are (like kids) the kind of people the world needs ‘cause they have a lot of love to give and a lot of wisdom to share. If we listened them, the Human life would be better.
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