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| Originally Posted by andyb Like what, War? well we know that costs millons...... It was my understanding the figure for road deaths was over a million as well  |
Any number of deaths - assaults, smoking, pollution, deaths by falling down the station stairs, errr... deaths caused by the police wrongly shooting innocent people in "anti-terrorist operations". Undoubtedly the beancounters know the cost of all these.
It doesn't matter, again it's misleading to blankly quote a cost without a meaningful comparison. I personally doubt that cost - it's probably dreamt up using some very simple calculation with a whole host of assumptions being made.
As for wars...you underestimate the costs by an order of magnitude 1000's. It's billions - not millions. Like I said - perspective is required and the authorities don't seem to have it.