Who is the wiser person: the simple-minded individual who surrounds himself with smart people, or the gifted intellectual who relies only upon himself?
The Value of Life
August 11, 2009 at 7:01 pm (Philosophy & Religion)
Tags: abortion, creation, eugenics, euthanasia, human beings, humanity, life, sanctity of life
At no point must human beings attempt to assign a discrete value — in terms of money, quality of life, or otherwise — to other human beings.
Many a husband throughout history has been infuriated by a wife who discarded something she thought was garbage but which he treasured. By extension, how much more might we invoke the wrath of a supreme being by devaluing human lives that we did not invent and who may have worth far beyond what we can imagine?
