RE: Does human life have INHERENT value?
June 21, 2015 at 5:58 pm
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2015 at 6:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 21, 2015 at 5:55 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:Would we have this "inherent value" if god had not created us, or had not created us the way he did? Look, if you can justify it -with god- but not -without god-........you're going to need to drop the inherent song and dance, it would no longer be a sensible claim. In your description..it does not arise from us...but rather -from what we have been given by another-.(June 21, 2015 at 5:46 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You and I agree, I just didn't need a god to get me there. If you stopped believing in god would you change your mind about that value?
(btw, the value you've described isn't inherent, it's assigned.....by god. Had god assigned that value to mushrooms, created them with value you reserve for human beings........ You see, it's nothing about us, not inherent to us..in your description...it's about god, and what god did.)
If I stopped believing in God, I would not change my mind about human life having inherent value because it is so engrained into me.
But I would have a hard time justifying my claim that it does.
(I'm not sure what you mean. Yes, God did create us with value... but it's still about us because He made us that way. So we are that way.)
It's a bit like claiming that a birthday present was -inherent- to you because it was currently in your possession.
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