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Are you weighing the life of a 85 year old person against that of a pre-teen girl? Why should the life of the old person be less valuable? I don't accept the argument of an average maximum life-expactancy. That is pure, delayed statistics. What if the old person would have lived on a happy life for 25 more years, dying naturally at the age of 110? Weighing up lives against each other puts you in a difficult ethical position.

A similar case was subject to a discussion by the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany. This was in response to a law that in the aftermath of 9/11 granted the military rights to shoot an airplane that got hijacked in order to protect the lives of ohers. The law was declared to vioalte the constitutional right for human dignity (Article 1 of the German Constitution) [1], expressing that all lifes are to be treated as being equal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftsicherheitsgesetz