Sacrifice Lives For Profit Dwight R Lee Analysis

In Sacrificing Lives for Profit, Dwight R Lee explains how the human life isn't exactly priceless. Regardless of life being held to no value, people make decisions every day that influence and make impacts on them. Many take chances by carrying out risky actions that can shorten their lifespan and value the worth of other things higher than the worth of their health. One example of this is one valuing overeating and not exercising more than keeping them in shape. Simple things, like speeding on the freeway, can negatively impact our lives. Every day one makes decisions based on their subjective marginal value. Whether it is what they will purchase or how they will spend their time.
Lee continues his argument by stating one should not

give sympathy to another, instead acknowledge that each and everyone makes choices every day and one should not interfere with the choices that others make. People take chances every day like driving a "battered Volkswagen Bug with a door that wouldn't close completely" so they would be able to pay for more education. Others drive motorcycles knowing the potential risks that they are undergoing.
Lee's argument is further implemented by him stating how people are accidentally injured and killed every day because products corporations sacrifice the lives of their customers.

Lee does not believe that corporations should ensure the safety of its consumers. It is explained how "corporations routinely sacrifice the lives of some of their customers to increase profits, and [everyone is] better off because they do…[people] are lucky to live in an economy that allows corporations to increase profits by intentionally selling products less safe than could be produced". Basically, corporations should not be held liable in following safety regulations such as emplacing seatbelts and airbags. Lee uses the idea that limited income necessitates choice. This meaning, consumers have the ability to make a choice and have the ability to choose to get a substitute good or their desired good based on their income. He also has an understanding of how people will buy more as the price of the good decreases and vice versa. Due to the consumers' ability in choice, Lee believes that companies should not be held liable to meet safety requirements. With the removal of the regulations, producers will be able to sell their products for a much cheaper price encouraging consumers to buy their products and have the freedom to spend more money on anything they please like education and health care. Car, airplane, or boat prices will be cheaper, but with the chance of people

dying.
The removal of safety regulations in order to maximize the consumers profits sound ridiculous. This sounds more like removing safety regulations in order to maximize the producers profits. Through removing regulations, corporations would not be held accountable for any malfunctions. Corporations would not be able to be sued nor have to spend more money to meet their requirements. Lee holds lives to no value, through stating that people lower their "life values" by making risky decisions. What Lee forgets to acknowledge at the end is that it is the person's decision to do things and possibly lower their life value and lifespan, not these corporations' decision. The people who currently go to purchase cars, value their potential good, with its safety regulations met, more than the money that they are trading it for. Removing regulations would entail the increase of the price of cars that do meet their old safety codes, which would just put more money into these corporations' pockets.