believe me, Carrol, but people -- including many working for the government
-- use the "value of human life" in sentences all the time even though it
may sound like "a yellow logarithm" to you and me.


On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> This thread goes far beyond my powers of comprehension, but it seems to me
> "the value of human life" cannot be used as the subject to an sentence in
> English. It is something like saying the volume of ingratitude or the color
> of electrons or the width of sincerity. It simply makes no sense.
>
> Carrol
>
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