RE: Does human life have INHERENT value?
June 22, 2015 at 2:34 am
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2015 at 2:35 am by robvalue.)
For something to be of value, you must necessarily be talking about some sort of intelligence granting that value. It's an abstract concept. Nothing has this "value" encoded into it, swirling around it, or can be objectively measured for "value".
So you must first say who is making this value judgement. If we're not taking any particular perspective, then no, life has no value. It's a particular arrangement of chemicals. The abstract concepts that might be formed about it aren't found within the object itself.
Valueable to me? Yes. All life is inherently valuable to me, in that I value every human and animal life, without having to know anything about them.
Valuable to some random person? I have no idea. Some people value life, some clearly don't.
So you must first say who is making this value judgement. If we're not taking any particular perspective, then no, life has no value. It's a particular arrangement of chemicals. The abstract concepts that might be formed about it aren't found within the object itself.
Valueable to me? Yes. All life is inherently valuable to me, in that I value every human and animal life, without having to know anything about them.
Valuable to some random person? I have no idea. Some people value life, some clearly don't.
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