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garnet · 01-13-2005, 02:56 AM

Smart kid, and I think he had good points. But I think he was off the mark on a few things, including the following:

"If one is doing the math, that is more than $138 million spent on seat belt laws. But the kicker is this: It is estimated, by researchers for Congress, that only 6,100 lives are saved per year because of new seat belt wearers."

Is he saying that it isn't worth $138 million to save 6,100 lives? It's pretty hard to to put dollar figures on a human life, but I personally think that's a pretty good investment.

01-13-2005, 02:56 AM	#29
garnet ... Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 657	Smart kid, and I think he had good points. But I think he was off the mark on a few things, including the following: "If one is doing the math, that is more than $138 million spent on seat belt laws. But the kicker is this: It is estimated, by researchers for Congress, that only 6,100 lives are saved per year because of new seat belt wearers." Is he saying that it isn't worth $138 million to save 6,100 lives? It's pretty hard to to put dollar figures on a human life, but I personally think that's a pretty good investment.