When have the lives of human beings become so cheap?

Question

Everyday I feel tremendous amount of guilt for the children that are being abused, people that are being murdered, for the injustice, for the suffering of the others.

Why do I feel so much guilt? Because I feel hopeless in which
I can't do much, I can't mend the lives of millions of children, stop the genocide in Sudan or end the war in Iraq. I can't bring back the lives of the soliders, I can't cure the cancers that many people and children are battling but I could do one thing and thats challenge the way people think.
We have become so desentized to deaths that people's lives have lost their values.Thousands of children are suffering from Leukemia, many children will die of child abuse, the death toll in Iraq is around 3,000+, 400,000 have died in the conflict in Sudan. So what?
Think above these numbers. We should be more compassionate towards one another and put the value back into people's lives.

My question is, how much do you value another persons life?

Do you value another persons life?

What if they have aids?

What if they were homeless?

Would the value be the same even though a person is muslim? Black, White, Orange, Blue

Answer 1

Well, Mizz know it all, you feel like most of us out there, and there isnt much we can do about it.
I would like to say another persons life is as valuable as mine, but unless you know that person, it isnt so.
If something bad happens to a member of your family, you feel bad, and maybe think what can you do, you could donate a kidney to save your sons life, I know I would, but I wouldnt for a stranger. Does that make me a lesser person?

Answer 2

i think that everyone no matter their race creed gender sex or the condition of their health is valuable. i also wish that we could do more to save peoples lives. some thing (aids and cancer) we really can do nothing to stop but if we work on the basis of what we can fix (world hunger) we would show the people of the world they really are valuable. i wish that we could stop the wars but in order to do that we would have to take away the freewill of the people and will never happen.

Answer 3

Since the rapidly erosion of morality in American Society, and the proliferation of things like "politcal correctness", which is nothing more than censure.

Answer 4

Perhaps if we valued another person's life as if it were our own....

Answer 5

Today's technology allows for instant world wide coverage of chaos and death as it is happening. If one watches enough of CNN, one will become desensitized to almost all types of human and animal suffering. I personally feel great respect for human and animal life, but have no pity or remorse for those that deserve to die. As an individual, there's not much you can do to change things on a global scale, but you may think about working with kids locally. Just be aware that all people do not deserve your pity and will take advantage of you if you let them. Realize the Races that are causing most of the problems in the world. It plays a major part in the scheme of things.

Please read the following..

THE COLOR OF CRIME REPORT
Summary
The Color of Crime, a New Century Foundation study based on federal crime reports, has found significant differences in violent crime rates for different racial and ethnic groups. Blacks, for example, are many times more likely to commit crimes of violence against whites than vice versa. Of the approximately 1,700,000 interracial violent crimes involving blacks and whites reported every year, blacks commit 90 percent and whites commit only ten percent. Blacks are therefore more than 50 times more likely than whites to commit interracial crimes of violence. The differences are even greater for multiple-offender interracial crimes, with blacks 100 to 250 times more likely to be involved in gang attacks on whites than the reverse.

Some people may argue that blacks attack whites because they expect them to be carrying cash or valuables. However, fewer than 20 percent of black attacks on whites are robberies; rape and assault do not usually have economic motives.

There is more black-on-white violent crime than black-on-black violent crime. When blacks commit violence they attack whites 50 to 55 percent of the time. When whites commit violence they attack blacks only two to three percent of the time.

Hate crimes are thought to be the most serious acts of interracial crime, but there were only 9,861 reported in 1997. Of these, 6,981 were race-related and 4,105 were violent. This very small number of crimes receives a disproportionate amount of attention, but it is likely that the millions of ordinary interracial crimes–90 percent of which are committed by blacks against whites–are more damaging to race relations. Although white-on-black hate crimes receive a great deal of attention; blacks are approximately twice as likely to commit hate crimes as whites.

Hispanics are considered a victim category for hate crimes but not a perpetrator category. A Mexican who is attacked because of ethnicity is recorded as Hispanic, but if the same Mexican attacks a black or white for racial reasons he is considered white. This inflates the figures for “white” hate crime perpetrators, and gives the impression that Hispanics commit no hate crimes.

For virtually all crimes, there are consistent and pronounced differences in arrest rates for violent crime by race and ethnicity. Blacks are five to ten times more likely to be arrested than whites, His-panics are approximately three times more likely, American Indians are about twice as likely, and Asians are only one half to two-thirds as likely to be arrested for violent crimes as whites. The very high rates for blacks means that the single best in-dependent predictor of crime rates for an area is the percentage of the population that is black.

Blacks are as much more likely to be arrested for violent crimes as men are more likely to be arrested than women are. To the extent that arrest rates are a good indication of actual criminal behavior– and there is very strong evidence that they are– blacks are as much more dangerous than whites, as men are more dangerous than women are. If people feel more threatened by unknown men than by unknown women and are justified in taking additional pre-cautions against them, from a statistical point of view they are equally justified in making the same distinctions between blacks and whites.

When it comes to violent crime, blacks are approximately as much more likely to be arrested than whites, as men are more likely to be arrested than women are. The multiples of black v. white arrest rates are very close to the multiples of male v. female arrest rates, suggesting that blacks are as much more dangerous than whites as men are more dangerous than women.


There is now much controversy about so-called “racial profiling,” by the police, that is, the practice of questioning blacks in disproportion-ate numbers in the expectation that they are more likely than people of other races to be criminals. This is just as rational and productive as “age” or “sex profiling.” Police would be wasting their time if they stopped and questioned as many old ladies as they do young men. It is the job of the police to catch criminals, and they know from experience that is likely to be an offender. Americans who do not question the wisdom of police officers who notice a possible suspect’s age or sex should not be surprised to learn those officers also notice race.

Conclusions

Two things can be said about most of the information in this report: It is easily discovered but little known. Every year, the FBI issues its report on hate crimes, and distributes thousands of copies to scholars and the media. Why does no one find it odd that hundreds of whites are reportedly committing hate crimes against whites? And why does no one question the wisdom of calling someone white when he is a perpetrator but Hispanic when he is a victim? (An FBI spokesman refused to discuss the reasons for this by telephone and insisted on an exchange of letters. His reply is provided below.17)

For some years there has been an extended national discussion about the prevalence of black-on-black crime–and for good reason. Blacks suffer from violent crime at rates considerably greater than do Americans of other races. And yet, amid this national outcry over the extent of black-on-black crime, there appears to be little concern about the fact that there is actually more black-on-white crime. Nor does there seem to be much interest in the fact that blacks are 50 to 200 times more likely than whites to commit interracial crimes of violence.

Everyone knows that young people are more dangerous than old people are and that men are more dangerous than women are. We adjust our behavior accordingly and do not apologize for doing so. Why must we then pretend that blacks are no more dangerous than whites or Asians? And, of course, it is no more than pretense. Everyone knows that blacks are dangerous, and everyone–black or white–takes greater precautions in black neighborhoods or even avoids such neighborhoods entirely.

The answer to these questions lies in the current intellectual climate. Americans are extremely hesitant to “perpetuate stereotypes,” and generally take care not to draw or publicize conclusions that may reflect badly on racial minorities. This is understandable, but has reached the point that certain subjects can no longer be investigated without bringing down charges of “racism.”

Needless to say, research that reflects badly on the majority population is not constrained by the same fears. However, our willingness to ignore sensibilities should not be selective. Violent crime and interracial violence are important, agonizing concerns in this country, and we cannot begin to formulate solutions unless we understand the problems.