After re-reading my comment, let me elaborate. I do feel bad for the adults but maybe after reading world news regularly I just feel numb. If I didn't, I'd be constantly depressed. Yet I just feel horrible for the two babies.
>Why? The first years of life aren't disproportionately more valuable than the last.
Adults have a few decades of experiencing life over babies. Infants have just started. I'm personally not very sure of the existence of an afterlife to make up for it.
> Does that really imply that they've lived "more" than everyone else on the aircraft?
It implies that they've had a better standard of living, a fuller life than most people in the world. You know 40-60 hour work weeks, clean air, cleaner water, hot water... stuff like that. I've lived outside of the US in 3rd world countries in South East Asia as well as other parts. The standards of living in the US is way better than China, Malaysia, and Vietnam. So yes (except for other people from developed countries)
Why? The first years of life aren't disproportionately more valuable than the last.
>especially the ones from the US.
Does that really imply that they've lived "more" than everyone else on the aircraft?