Reply To: General thought on old coal mines.

[Rezwan]

Breakable wrote: …in the world where resources are scarce and current living philosophy of consumerism is still promoted, human life will probably drop in value.

Someone made a fine distinction for me the other day. Value vs. cost. They said, “work doesn’t create value, it creates cost. Value is in the eye of the beholder.”

Hence, dropping bombs over the Middle East is a no brainer, because the cost is paid by those valueless people over there, who are threatening our precious, valuable sprinkler systems over here.

Cost? What cost? I don’t value their lives (those soldiers, or the civilians in other countries whose lives are in chaos) so it’s no cost at all. Why are you trying to stick me with this bill? It’s bad enough I have to pay for all this hardware (the lucrative contract which I’m giving to my golf buddy at Halliburton – because his company, I value). And I’d gladly throw another thousand lives (however many lives it takes) of other people’s valueless bodies at the problem to keep me in my rosy happy world. The only thing I really value.