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Patrick Leahy: “No one's life should become an asterisk in somebody's cost/benefit analysis. It is immoral.”

On the recordJune 7, 2010
No one's life should become an asterisk in somebody's cost/benefit analysis. It is immoral.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy criticizes the devaluation of human life in corporate decisions.

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