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Context: a young criminal is not a member of a yakuza clan (半グレ) but he is
happy to be their dogsbody (使いっぱしり). After he kills a member of an enemy
yakuza clan, a member of the clan he works for covers him and takes the guilt
for the crime. While in prison, the yakuza man thinks:

> 何してんだ俺ァ！！ [ガキ]{あいつ}が… 結果どーなるか考えるまでもねェのに…  
>  組に価値を拾われた自分に重なったからか？

What is the meaning of 重なった in this context? Does it refer to the fact that
his situation and the boy's situation overlap? If so, is it similar to 同じ in
this case? Also, I am not sure how to interpret までもない here. My attempt:

> What am I doing?! Even though the boy didn't have to think (?) about the
> result of his action... Maybe I am doing this because like him I find my
> value in the clan?

[Here you can find](https://i.stack.imgur.com/y4izk.jpg) the pages where the
sentence comes from for more context (click the images to zoom). Thank you for
your help!
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Meaning of 重なる in this sentence
It is not 物価価値 but 価値. I think you correctly grasp the meaning of 重なる. It
means as you said.

考えるまでもない means "don't need to think","No brainer", "It is obvious enough not
to think about it".

My attempt is "What am I doing? I don't need to think what become of that kid
in the result. Maybe I did that because he was overlapped with me? Because he
was valued by the clan like me".

組に価値を拾われた would mean "to be valued by the clan", though it isn't a common
phrase . On the other hand 組に価値を見出す means "to find the value in the clan".
They have a bit different nuance.
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I think your attempt is close, but needs some fine tuning.

> 何してんだ俺ァ！！ [ガキ]{あいつ}が… 結果どーなるか考えるまでもねェのに… 組に価値を拾われた自分に重なったからか？

Here is my rendering.

> What am I doing?!

(Referring to covering for the kid)

> It's obvious what's going to happen to him...

(Referring to the kid being killed.)

> Is it because I see myself in him? Because the clan found value in him like
> they did me?

(Referring to his reason for covering for the kid)

Finally, to answer your main question about 重なる, it is a common way to say
**"see person A (usually self) in person B."**  
Really, it's the dictionary meaning of "overlap" at work.  
In terms of the way words are used, not the meaning of 重なる, you could look to
"project" in English for an example of a similar phenomenon in the way we talk
about "projecting our feelings onto others."
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