Except that we do. We assign monetary values to human lives in actuarial models every day. The statistical value of a human live in the Netherlands when considering traffic safety was E700k in the last project I worked on, but this varies by purpose and over time. Furthermore, there are several international standard methods of quantifying the burden of disease, like the DALY and QALY.<p>So yes, we can and we do &#x27;objectively&#x27; (as in, per a standardized methodology) assign value to human suffering.