should aperson be permitted to place a value on human life? should a company? should the goverment? if not how would dicisions be made about weather to market certain products that might be risky for some, but helpful to others, and how much should those who have lost family memebers in deisasters should be compensated, and so on?

These are tough questions. The purpose of this exercise is to help YOU to think about them and come up with tentative answers.

Note: the only wrong answers would be those you copy from someone else.