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A Modest Proof

Posted by Nutcasenightmare - April 26th, 2010


A MODEST PROOF

The price of an object is its worth, implying that price is equivalent to worth. Assume human life is priceless. Therefore, human life is worthless. This conclusion feels wrong, therefore it must be wrong. Ergo, via proof by contradiction, human life has a price.

Price, in a free, competitive environment, is determined by supply and demand. The supply of life has been increasing due to population booms. The demand for life has been decreasing due to technology. Ergo, via economics, the value of human life will eventually reach zero; human life will be worthless.

Suppose government intervention was enacted to stop population growth and advancements in science. This would reduce humans to the status of being pets to be spayed and/or technological cavemen. We would wish our lives were worthless to begin with, so that we would not feel such horrid loss of dignity.

Therefore, by this irrefutable argument, life either is or will soon be worthless, and any proposed solution will worsen our mortal condition. Thus, I find that my actions on the night of April 25th were a fair exchange for the extra $20 tip I left the waiter and the new job I created for the janitor.

Thank you all for your time.

~ The defendant was found guilty on charges of first-degree murder, cannibalism, and motivating the suicide of several members of the jury. Now if you excuse me I have to go drown my sorrows in chocolate and chick flicks.

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FITHFITHFITHFITHFITH

P.S: I obviously don't believe anything said here. I mean, 'the new job created for the janitor'? That's crazy broken window fallacy talk!


Comments

You are a philosopher my friend, it seems you leave yourself much time to think, and your mind wanders.

If, however, our socioeconomic structure falls apart before that happen, human life's worth would increase significantly, and that'd be the repetition of a cycle.

Cool

what about the egotistical sons of bitches who will always have a feeling of self worth? and impervious dignity. or the people who create the technology that makes the rest of us FEEL worthless? are they not worth more then the rest?

At the end of the day, we're all worth $15 per pound.

RESTART:the game:coming soon?

Its like im watching The Pigpen all over again

I would argue the worth of a person is judged by a person's actions. I would, but i'm too busy masturbating to pictures of five year olds eating cake.

that was awesome
when comes your new games out?
rather work on that

I am suddenly very curious as to what you did on my birthday....

One problem with that though. Worthless cannot equal both priceless and zero, as priceless means "without price," and zero is a price.

Priceless would better be defined as infinite worth, and worthless would be 0. Therefore human life cannot be said to have a price if it is priceless, rather that it is beyond measure.

Ooh, you got me. >_<

Motivating the suicide of several members of the jury?

Just how boring WAS this court case?!

no. your reasoning is based off of a faulty premise. the price of an object is not its worth. worth supersedes price. some of the most valuable things i own had no prices, i didn't buy them, and yet still being priceless, they are worth more than the world to me. worth is an intangible, more emotional (spiritual one might say) value of something. price is base material value.

your first paragraph is too much of a blanket statement. the second paragraph of your post narrows the scope and you make a very important distinction there: "via economics". yes, via economics humans will become worthless. but the spiritual and artistic worth of a human will remain, something that is overlooked by the blanket statement of the first paragraph and never modified in the subsequent paragraphs.

and fava beans. fefefefefe!

Lol, it was a joke. All of it is faulty.

All human life is meaningful, no matter how many humans there are and how far technology has advanced, this is because our "price" differs to different people, our family values us more than some stranger in another country for example.
Prices are invented by humans to judge worth of an object, not a living, intelligent creature.

When one says the value of life is priceless, that man intends the statement to be taken positively due to its connotation, not literal meaning.

But while we're still on this subject, did you know the laws of thermodynamics apply to society as well as matter?

Yup. Entropy! Any closed system tends towards chaos. I wonder how North Korea's closed economy is doing.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIVIDE BY ZERO!

the value of a human life would be rather low, seeing as it costs nothing to get someone pregnant. But the value of each individual human is different. The worth of something (when talking money) is based on how much other humans need it, which means the more useful you are, the more you're worth. And even if you can't do shit, there's still uses for your body/body parts that people would be willing to pay for.

Yup, you just can't get enough kidneys!...

... Wait. Omg you're MasterAardvark holy dang I love you.

Perhaps the price of a human life is an average of each individual's financial assets. That is, could a person's worth be determined by the total numerical value of the things (physical or not) owned by any said person?

Obviously he doesn't believe in any of this. It's just a bunch of logical fallacies strung together. He just wanted to come up with a way of justifying the new job he created for the janitor.

@ Pjorg

Of course, but it got me thinking about it.
Also, I just noticed the person above my first comment said the same thing, but in a better way. Crap.

IMMAH FIRIN' MAH LAZOR!!!

Human life has worth. All you need is a war and less robots. But even though it's all joking, it actually had me as logical for a little while. Suffered a seizure during that time, but that's all coincidence.

Also, i find your $20 tip must be equal to the service given. 15 handjobs and a walk of the dog, I'd say. so that comes down to a buck a hand job and a single dollar for walking the dog. Price had to be more because it was punt-able (as in able to punt).

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