Monday, June 30, 2014

The Relative Worth Of Human Beings

GM is offering $1 million for each death caused by faulty ignition switches:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/business/gms-payout-formula-for-the-dead-1-million-and-up.html

Victims of the Bhopal, India chemical disaster, on the other hand, were only paid $1,970 for each death caused by the event:

http://bhopal.net/what-is-the-value-of-an-indian-life/

And still Americans think that the people of India do not value human life as much as they do.

Hmmm ...

Whatever happened to Kal Penn's movie Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain? Why wasn't it released? One would have thought that since Kal was pals with Obama ad-Dajjal doors would have flown open for him. Here's the trailer:

http://youtu.be/vvxslcJDw7E

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