value - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 02 Apr 2014 23:07:27 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg value - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 How much would you pay to save a life? https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/04/04/much-pay-save-life/ Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:30:17 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=56343

How much would you pay to save a life? Not necessarily your life, nor the life of someone you know or love. Just a life: Joe Bloggs, Jane Doe, the guy from the bus, the high school friend you don't speak to any more. Think of a figure, round it to the nearest hundred thousand, Read more

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Not necessarily your life, nor the life of someone you know or love. Just a life: Joe Bloggs, Jane Doe, the guy from the bus, the high school friend you don't speak to any more.

Think of a figure, round it to the nearest hundred thousand, put a dollar sign in front, and we're done.

With a simple, arbitrary sum that quantifies, to your mind, the existence of another human, you've reached your own personal ‘value of life'.

It sounds callous, but this is essentially how government agencies have determined what you're worth for more than two decades now.

The Value of Statistical Life (VoSL) was developed by the Ministry of Transport in 1991 as a way to measure the country's loss of life in dollars.

The figure was initially set at $2 million, and was based on the findings of a survey that asked approximately 600 people what they would be willing to pay for various improvements in road safety.

From this, a value was determined to represent what an average person would be willing to pay to reduce the risk of death in road accidents.

In crude terms, the state had estimated it would be $235,000 better off for every person that didn't die. Continue reading.

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So I say to my competitive, jealous, and accumulative self, "Remember, but for the life-giving and loving gaze of God, you are but dust and to dust you shall return. "In reality there is no profit, no extra, no surplus, because all is God's, and but for God's generosity, there is nothing." On Monday my Read more

True value... Read more]]> So I say to my competitive, jealous, and accumulative self,

"Remember, but for the life-giving and loving gaze of God, you are but dust and to dust you shall return.

"In reality there is no profit, no extra, no surplus, because all is God's, and but for God's generosity, there is nothing."

On Monday my Facebook feed revealed that a friendly acquaintance has an article coming out in a prestigious academic journal.

While I wish my first thoughts had been,

"Oh good, some new take on the world that I'll be able to ponder and perhaps learn from,"

they were more in the direction of,

"He hasn't even finished his doctorate yet and he's getting published in this bigwig journal? Jealous… Maybe there's something I could turn into an article and submit?

"That would look really good on my resume, plus I'm closer to finishing my degree than he is." Continue reading.

Bradford Rothrock is a PhD candidate in Theology and Education at Boston College, USA. His research interests are focused on issues related to pedagogy and the doctrine of God.

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