The value of human life?

[SovietSecrets]

If you can't survive a Saw trap, then your life has no meaning or value. Easy way to look at it.

 

[Ham_authority95]

In my future military dictatorship, I would value young adults/teenagers way more than babies because young adults/teenagers can actually work and make more future young adults/teenagers.

Hell, I might even make a machine that produces fully grown young adults/teenagers, fresh and really for work without that pesky "growing up" business.

*cracks whip* Move it, scum!

 

[Ham_authority95]

if GlaDos is to be believed, it is their value of their organs + their insurance policies

Is is also my answer.

 

[PortalParadox]

I could say that I think humans are worthless to look cool, but I hold all human life in equally high value.
When I hear that someone died, all that I can think about is that that person deserved to live just as much as anyone else.
On a similar note, whenever someone, no matter who they are, tells me that they think human life is worthless, I suddenly hate them.

 

[Blobpie]

All life is important, yes there are billions of us... but that' is billions of distinct individuals, who are like you and me. We are all so complex that when we lose even one person... we lose a part of us... be it for good or ill.

 

[C117]

It might be because of our instincts. A baby is helpless, sweet and innocent, with lots of future potential. And an old man is dried up, grey and fugly, with no future at all.

 

[zehydra]

It's not that you can't apply the idea of value to a human life, it's just not something we SHOULD do. When people start believing that some people's lives are worth more than others, you end up in situations like, The Holocaust.

But what if some sort of mass genocide might actually be the right thing to do? We wouldn't know, because we refuse to consider the possibility.

You would need a morality that is at odds with most people's morality to consider that it could possibly be the right thing to do. What I mean is, if you believe that it is the right thing to do, then you will be considered by the rest of us (including myself) as evil.

Indeed, the rest of the world would consider me evil. That wouldn't mean I was wrong though. Evil is merely a fancy word for "doesn't agree with the rest of us".

Edit: Just so I won't get banned due to misunderstandings: I don't actually believe genocide is right. I'm just saying that it isn't impossible that it might be.

It can't be "The right thing" it can only be "the right thing to you". What I mean is, There is no absolute "right", or "evil", but "right-ness" and "evil-ness" to you. I'm kind of tired I know what I'm trying to say, though I'm not sure if it will get across. Sorry if this is a little confusing.

 

[WolfThomas]

My friend kept asking me if I'd shovel so many monkeys into a furnace to save a little girls life...turns out I'd shovel a lot of monkeys.

 

[JoshGod]

There are three ways to measure the a value of a life, one is there age, how much of life they have left to experience/enjoy etc. the second is how much money they are actually worth, which is their salary, - minus any costs, Plus about £500,000.00 for the body (full grown and healthy)(this is according to Qi). The final method is the impact this person has on the world, so a President or a pregnant women is higher ranking than the average joe. As for which one you choose to use, it depends on your morality/views, or the business your in.

 

[Jonluw]

It's not that you can't apply the idea of value to a human life, it's just not something we SHOULD do. When people start believing that some people's lives are worth more than others, you end up in situations like, The Holocaust.

But what if some sort of mass genocide might actually be the right thing to do? We wouldn't know, because we refuse to consider the possibility.

You would need a morality that is at odds with most people's morality to consider that it could possibly be the right thing to do. What I mean is, if you believe that it is the right thing to do, then you will be considered by the rest of us (including myself) as evil.

Indeed, the rest of the world would consider me evil. That wouldn't mean I was wrong though. Evil is merely a fancy word for "doesn't agree with the rest of us".

Edit: Just so I won't get banned due to misunderstandings: I don't actually believe genocide is right. I'm just saying that it isn't impossible that it might be.

It can't be "The right thing" it can only be "the right thing to you". What I mean is, There is no absolute "right", or "evil", but "right-ness" and "evil-ness" to you. I'm kind of tired I know what I'm trying to say, though I'm not sure if it will get across. Sorry if this is a little confusing.

I'm of the same opinion. In fact, that was sort of my point. The other person said that genocide was wrong, and I tried to point out that it wasn't wrong, it is merely that the majority of people see it as wrong, and there will therefore be repercussions to it.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

All lives cannot possibly hold a large enough value in my eyes, to me, every human is significant and has the potential to do great things, no matter how small you think you are, you are extremely important and there are people who care for you.

YOU are not insignificant