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Originally Posted by Keith  This is possibly a bit callous, but it seems to me that we devalue individual human lives by having so darn many of them!.
When statistics like "36,000 people per day die of starvation" are not only possible but a minor blip on the radar, there's something really, really wrong!
If the human race truly considers the quality of individual human life important, then why do we keep producing more people than we can care for? |
Good question.
And by the way: most humans care more about their dog or their cat that has just died than about thousands who've died in plane crashes, wars and droughts. And it's not surprising. We don't have any real emotional connection to these anonymous people who perished in these events.
Fact is that if Life has an inherent value then EVERY Life should have this value. But this is obviously not the case and rather wishful thinking.
How much was the life of a kid worth who got killed because of his shoes? Or his iPod? $100?