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> It sounds very nice and morally fulfilling to denigrate any numerical calculus of welfare

Many of those "numerical calculus" measure only savings in time, fuel, etc and attribute ZERO value to saving lives, improving quality of life and even improving mental health. Such calculations are not pragmatic, they are highly ideological.



Ideologues everywhere use statistics as a pretext for their lies. Water is wet. More breaking news at 11.


You are missing the point completely.




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