Personally i’m not convinced that our democratic republican government is particularly more or less interested in It’s citizen’s lives. With the exception of the corporate ‘people’ of course. They must be protected at all costs. The rest of us though? Meh. We’re completely expendable.
I had to laugh at the notions of "respect for life" and "consequences," as it's more than obvious that the plutocrats running the show here have neither. I guess such quaint concepts only apply to us workers and taxpayers.