Age and the Value of Life: A Further Reply

“Old Lives Matter.” I fully agree with the title of Jeremy Horpedahl’s latest reply on the value of life.  To say that the life of an 80-year-old is worth 1% or .1% as much as the life of a 10-year-old is not deny the high value of elderly lives, because 10-year-old lives are immensely valuable.

However, I disagree with almost all of Jeremy’s arguments.  To wit:

Let’s start with Caplan’s three reasons, which he calls “iron-clad”: young people have more years to live, those years are generally he...