This is not a question about abortion or the death penalty and it does not serve to minimize the importance of any other type of life, it is just something I have been thinking about the last couple days


Is every Human life precious? I mean, if losing three thousand lives in america changes the WORLD forever, does losing one life in Japan do the same? OR hundreds of thousands in Japan? or 19 children in Oklahoma?

does each new life affect the world forever just as much as each death does? Does it affect the world anymore than the election of a new world leader or the destruction of a rain forest?


How significant is human life in the scope of the WORLD?

Ever see the movie "It's A Wonderful Life"?

your question reminded me of this joke for some reason

President Bush and Don Rumsfeld are sitting in a bar ~
A guy walks in and asks the barman, “Isn’t that Bush and Rumsfeld sitting over there?”
The barman says, “Yep, that’s them.”
So the guy walks over and says, “Wow, this is a real honor! What are you guys doing in here?”
Bush says, “We’re planning WW III & IV.”
And the guy says, “Really? What’s going to happen?”
Bush says, “Well, this time, for openers, we’re going to kill 140 million Muslims and one blonde with big t*ts.”
The guy exclaimed, “A blonde with big t*ts? Why kill a blonde with big t*ts?”
Bush turns to Rumsfeld and says, “See, I told you no one would care about the 140 million Muslims”.

To me human life is scared to be cherished. I believe one person can make a differance in the world. . . and many people have proven that!

No more precious than any other living plant and animal on the Earth that gets treated with utter disregard for the homosapiens creature comforts.......do I feel sorry for someone that kills.....or puts themselves in their own shoes placed out of society and given the ultimate death sentence...no I do not......do I feel sorry for the bears cougars and animals that get chased out into the open and killed for anothers comforts yes I do......or trees and plant centuries old taken before their time yes I do.....the red wood forest and the rain forest.....thr frogs and the lizzards.....the time we take reducing our own oxygen as we kill ourselves in a slow death.....I say they get off lucky to not have to be here when there is no more oxygen left to breath.....a quick death over a long dragged out torture

I don't know if one like can change the world simple by existing (i'm not talking about those who do great thing), but they all certainly change a part of it. Consider = Even a baby who dies an hour after birth has changed lives. Those of his or her parents certainly, but also, the attending doctors and nurses, anyone who might have looked through the nursery while the baby was there. Even before birth, a stranger sees a pregnant woman, consider how that evidence of the continuation of the species affects them.

7+ billion on a planet that can BARELY sustain us. No not every human life is precious. Some people are just a waste of air. There are a lot of good people out there but how abou tthe ones who are not so good and the ones who are just crap in human skin?

No, not evey human life is precious. And on top of htat what makes us more important than other life on this world?

Genetically speaking, every person who lives long enough to pass on his or her geners makes a difference in the grand scheme of humanity. Other than that, none of us really makes any lasting difference aside from the bonds we establish with others, and those rarely have any effect once we're dead. So physically, yes, every life matters. Socially, we only matter monemtarily in the big picture. Sort of depressing, isn't it?

Life, don't talk to me about life!

i don't like to think of it as wasting air. i like to think of it as producing co2 for the plants to use. and human skin makes for a wonderfully large sack for storing crap.
some of us are here for the sole purpose of making others look better.


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human life is no more or less precious than any life.

Each life is precious...........it is a shame that we have to loose them in the massive in order for others to see that...

this is my favorite response,, thanx

I dont think its so depressing. I think we all have people we matter to. I just was struck by a statement made that 9/11 changed the world forever, even though we loose thousands of people to violence EVERY DAY in america and all over the globe. Just wondered why these three thousand might have changed the world where the other thousands didnt....


I say similarly, that I am grateful or blessed to have healthy children. Because they are MINE , I do feel blessed. BUt does that mean I feel the univers or God feels I am special in the scheme of the whole WORLD or that my children are,,, not necessarily.

I think anyone with healthy children is blessed, but not because of their own merit or being any more important than anyone else.

I guess Americans sometimes feel when things happen to 'THEIR ' citizens, the world changes, because THEIR world does.


anyhow, just pondering,,lol

And I did START OUT with the disclaimer that I am not posting an opinon about human life being more significant than other life, just posting a question about how important any ONE life is as it relates to the world continuing to turn.....

Honestly the way it changed it is the same way other wars have changed it for it was a attack against America!!!

It did not happen on a battle field but where only innocent people were that did not have a chance.

It will always be a day that is etched within many of us.

Not sayting that there are more then one day that will be. But it is one that will stand out in my lifetime.

Not saying that anyone life is not as precious as the ones that died that day just that was a day that went down in history...and will be there for many to read in the future to come.

I understand that too. Hiroshima was an event that similarly 'changed the world' and went down in history.

Ultimatly, life is cheap in the broad sense. Slavery, poverty....it ain't gonna go out of style anytime soon.

Individual life is different to me. Some lives are good. Others are human dirt. I take a budhist approach to most life. Treat it with respect when you can.

As far as individuals meaning nothing in the long run....I do not agree. All sorts of individuals have affected society and will continue to do so long beyond our lives.

Leonardo DaVinci's art.

Bill Gates computer.

Hammurabbi's Laws.

Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha...organized religion

Sun Tsu...The Art of War.

William Shakespeare.....entertainment

Iddie Amin and the Ton Ton Makhout....atrocities.

Adolf Hitler........intolerance and hatred.

Hugh Hefner...revived the art of nudity.

Thomas Edison...we will start with the light bulb, but his list is too damned long.

Benjamin Franklin....we will start with the postal service, but his list is too damned long to.

Krupa......he's cool.

Elvis Aaron Presley.....immortalized rock music for as long as we will exist as humans.



Individuals count. The trick is trying to convince people that they actually matter.

well put

People are born and die every minute of every day.

Very few of them individually affect any change on the human condition.

But the combined effect of all the people on all the world is immeasurable.

We are all on this boat together.

It's a shame too few of us realize that.

One thing I can ask is what does each person bring to the table so to speak. Some people only bring misery and drama. So what of the useless among us? Are they of equal value to a nurse or craftsman or just someone who is willing to work a hard day? How about the life of a religious fanatic who kills people for their god?

Likewise why is it right to kill a predator that kills humans? Is the predator evil or living within its nature? Predators are designed to kill. Likewise what makes us so lofty above say Rats? Or flies? Each lives in a balance with nature. We disrupt the balance.

On top of that what could one say about human life in a Soilent Green situation? Tasty?