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		ccleve 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let's Ban Billboards How do you place a value on aesthetics? Or driver distraction? Or the irritation I feel when I see 50 billboards for cannabis every time I drive down the road near my house?

eru 6 months ago [–]

It's not harder than placing values on human lives, yet we manage to do so just fine for cost-benefit analysis of eg road safety.

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