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Counting lives is moral because it treats every life as equally valuable
Drawn from what Steven Pinker said
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- Steven Pinker Cognitive scientist and author at Harvard
The moral value of quantification is that it treats all lives as equally valuable, so actions that bring down the highest numbers of homicides prevent the greatest amount of human tragedy.
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