Feel about the use of cost-benefit analysis

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1. How do you feel about the use of cost-benefit analysis where human life is part of the cost calculation? Might the infusion of moral language have changed the decision makers' thinking? For example, what if decision makers had talked about their responsibility for killing 180 human beings?

2. Given that all automobiles are unsafe to some degree, where do you draw the line on product safety? How safe is safe enough-and who decides?

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