That's the "magic" that underpins all the perverse things modern western societies engage in.

Life is considered valuable in integer quantities but fractional life is considered value-less.

People are free to do, endorse, concoct and peddle all sorts of things that waste people's time (life) or waste people's money on the basis that it "saves lives" because it prevents lives from being lost in whole numbers but the sum total of the little fractions ad up to more.

I just think we can express the idea that things are very bad without doing violence to the word violence.