The Value of a Human Being

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    What makes a human being valuable? Is it what they do? How they think? What they look like? What they accomplish? 


The short answer is...all of the above to an extent, but its much deeper than that. The value of a human being should never be contingent on things like race or sexuality or gender. The value of a human being lies mostly in our sentience. Our minds. The fact that we feel. We think. We love. 


These are intrinsic in our nature. The fact that we are isolated, individualized samples of consciousness essentially renders every human being into an isolated world. Who is to say one world is more or less valuable than another.  Our intrinsic worth comes from the shared nature that we have with God. We are conscious, sentient and aware, something that makes us unique amongst all other forms and substances of the existence. 


This awareness, the feelings of pain, the feelings of pleasure, our capacity for growth, our capacity to learn, our capacity to love, makes our worth almost priceless. This is not contingent upon race, or any other differentiating status of a human being. This is contingent solely upon the conscious, sentient nature of a human being, one that makes us essentially worlds within a world.  


 You shouldn't put a price on human life. How could you put a price  on a world? It goes to say that when you kill a human being, you are eliminating an entire world of memories, thoughts, dreams, hopes, and love.  No one should ever have that power over another person.

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