Value of Life

One would argue that a professional doctor, who is in the business of saving peoples lives, is much more important the individual who is unemployed and only watches television all day. Another would argue that someone like a world renowned spiritual leader is far more important to society than perhaps The President of the United States. When you look at these two arguments, the person you view to be more important depends on your own morals and upbringing, which are functions of your environment. An unemployed person, who remained at home parked in front of the television for the bulk of the day, would probably argue they are worth just as much as any doctor in the country. They would most likely take this view due to a belief in universal human intrinsic value, which if one believed in such a thing, would inde

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When you look at our society as a whole, life on an individual level is not something dispensable. When it comes right down to it, the price of life is something immeasurable, inconsistent, and morally iniquitous. Does this increase or decrease the value of either of these people’s lives? I do not believe so.

Turning on the television is another way to see how our country devalues life. Every time we turn to the news it seems like more people are dying and less is being done about it. If our society placed a high value on life, we would create the necessary shelters for these helpless people who have just as much right to live their lives to the greatest extent they can as every man and woman on this earth.

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. Washington Bureaucrats constantly send our military into other countries to fight wars that we do not belong simply to gain land and resources. The professional doctor may be a single person with no responsibilities other than his or her work. In the case of two people such as Mother Theresa and Bill Clinton, non-religious people would probably put a higher “value ratin!

g” on the ex-president of our country, rather than the ex-spiritual icon of many around the world.

It is simply impossible to put a kind of value on someone’s life. Every night, the news brings us heart-wrenching stories of people living on our streets, freezing, starving, and dying. The person who is unemployed and only watches television all day might need to care for five children while doing so. With the ever increasing demand for rights to lands and resources, there is and ever decreasing supply of life to fight with. Due to the great variation in the environments we as people originate from, saying that the value of an individual’s life increases with the contributions that person makes to the society is an unfair statement.

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