I value my car and it's life more than the human life that endanger my, their, and everyone else on the rod's life when they do things in a car that assume the other driver has good reflexes. And there's never a cop in sight.
To each his own, but I'll never value an inanimate object over someone's life just because they made poor choices.
I don't value my car more than someone else's life, but this is twice now just in the last few months that my trailer hitch has saved my vehicle from certain damage...damage I would've had to spend money on for repairs. I can't help it if other drivers are too distracted or whatever to not drive into the back of my vehicle, but I'm not going to do something to my vehicle that makes it more prone to damage just because other drivers can't seem to be enough in control of their own vehicles to not hit me...that's roughly the equivalent of saying we should wrap everything in soft padding that's along side the roads because some drivers may hit them...