RE: Does human life have value?
June 21, 2015 at 5:27 pm
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2015 at 5:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Rationally, I value my own life. Because I am consistent I value in others that which I share with others, that which I value in myself. The more something shares with me, the more similar I am to something, the more value I assign it, because, again, value starts right here (and ofc the more dissimilar, the -less- I value it). This is why, for example, I assign the utmost value to your life, and less value to a dogs life.....while the dog's life is valued (by me) more than the life of a mollusk, and finally...allll the way down...the mullosk is assigned a greater value, to me...than a pile of rocks.
Biologically? My pain response is autonomous, my fear response is autonomous. My heart beats without my conscious control (and I couldn't will it to stop if I tried). I am -incapable- of not valuing my life, every part of me, from the machinery "on up"...if there even is an up...screams to me to preserve that which I am, alive. Even if the "on up" bit of me -tried- through ignorance or mistake...to off itself, my machinery might yank the wheel out of that humunculous' hands because clearly...it doesn't know wtf it's doing...and it's time for a better qualified operator. I can't help it, that's the situation my biology places me in, regarding my valuing human life.
(I was asking you if you thought that human life had value, ofc.)
Biologically? My pain response is autonomous, my fear response is autonomous. My heart beats without my conscious control (and I couldn't will it to stop if I tried). I am -incapable- of not valuing my life, every part of me, from the machinery "on up"...if there even is an up...screams to me to preserve that which I am, alive. Even if the "on up" bit of me -tried- through ignorance or mistake...to off itself, my machinery might yank the wheel out of that humunculous' hands because clearly...it doesn't know wtf it's doing...and it's time for a better qualified operator. I can't help it, that's the situation my biology places me in, regarding my valuing human life.
(I was asking you if you thought that human life had value, ofc.)
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