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>The second question which required a choice between killing homeless people and wealthier ones made me too disgusted to continue.

Then you're not going to like this factoid. In wrongful death civil suits in the US, the monetary award is based on the current income and earning potential of the deceased; the courts place vastly lower monetary value on the live of homeless people than on the wealthy.



I am not surprised. And I don't like it. And, I understand why it makes sense.




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