Our civilization is a K-civilization. Though it may not seem like it, we actually value life at its highest in history from a strategy perspective. We do not generally follow robust, high redundancy designs for our institutions. They cannot tolerate a high death rate.
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Plus system has evolved to work with the constraints that people tend to care about family elders and their own old age. A society that treated life past 60 as worth sharply less for eg would not have a stable incentive structure. Makes for fun sci-fi like Pebble in the Sky tho
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society/culture makes this distinction all the time... 'women and children first'
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See also the tx lt-gov who said he's willing to sacrifice, I've also personally heard this sentiment more older friends and family
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