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life is cheap

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life is cheap
if life is cheap somewhere, people's lives have little value so if they die it is not important. In the city, gunmen rule the streets and life is cheap.
See also: cheap, life
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The accessibility of drugs and guns, and the influence of misogynist, violence-laced rap songs also reinforce the deep feeling among many youth that life is cheap and easy to take, and there will be minimal consequences for their action as long as their victims are other young blacks.
THE FALL OF LOS ANGELES RISE IN GANG VIOLENCE SPELLS CITY'S DECLINE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Written by Viet Nam veteran Gaz Crittenden (served with 1st Cavalry Division Airmobile in the Viet Nam central highlands from 1966-67), Jungle Rules: A Novel of Viet Nam is a gripping debut novel about the brutality of war in a land where life is cheap.
Jungle Rules by Carson, Michael J. / Reviewer's Bookwatch
Arab life is cheap here, and a citizen like the deserter Eden Natan-Zada would know that.
Not welcome here: attacks on Palestinians in Israel continue by Humphries, Isabelle / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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