Quote Originally Posted by bae View Post
Babies and kids can be replaced using generally-unskilled labor.

Adults represent a substantial investment in education and training, and are expensive to replace.

Until they hit retirement, then onto the ice floe with them.
If we view life valuation of any given clump of cells in strictly utilitarian terms, I think we would need to look beyond the investment in training. Is an associate professor of gender studies worth more than an electrical engineer if we need to start tossing people out of the lifeboat? Expensive training isn’t necessarily valuable training. I can think of HVAC techs or butchers I would value over a PhD in musicology if it came to a choice.