Are some lives more valuable than others?
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read many of the comments with interest and there were a couple I up-voted.
I personally do not believe that one human is worth more than another. People may say someone is worth more than another person because of what they did during their lives, say Hitler vs. Gandhi. While it is easy to point out that Gandhi did more to bring peace than Hitler, I would say that Hitler was valuable as a object lesson of who we should not be.
It is this “good/ bad” (I don’t like either term as they are judgmental - but they will make my point easier to understand) - dichotomy that allows people to understand and decide who they want to be. If we had no “bad” people, we would never understand what being “good” means. There is an old spiritual saying that states, if we never had darkness, we would never understand light - because that is all there would be.
It is the comparison of the “good/ bad” that provides us with understanding. We get to see why something works and why something else does not.
In asking the worth of a human, the other question is when would we make such a determination? When they are two years old? Fifteen? Twenty five? Fifty? Eighty or one hundred years old?
I’ll give a short but real story. In a family I knew, there was a daughter who was always in trouble with the law. She was into gangs, drugs, theft, etc. The family did what they could but she would not change. The daughter ended up in jail a coupe of times, serving a few months, then a year. The family had given up on her and had written her off as useless. Then one day their daughter received a 5 year term in jail. This was a long time, which allowed her to reflect on who she was. During this 5 years she decided this was not who she wanted to be.
When she was released from jail, at age 28, she began speaking to the inter city kids she knew. She started to figure out ways to help these people avoid the mess she ended up in. Ten years later she had one of the most successful inner city help centers that has ever been developed and helped hundreds of people avoid the path she took.
So this provided me the answer to my question on age and when we judge others on their value as a human being. Looking at her at 22 years of age many would have said she was worth less and less valuable than many other people. Yet at 35 she became what most would say was a valuable person as she contributed much to society.
The question intones human value as of now…when anyone could be become immensely valuable later in life. We just don’t know.
This is why I believe all humans are equally valuable.
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