2007-09-22 01:48:27 · 22 answers · asked by Silkie1 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Therefore, kill people for their diamonds? Often the precious thing is life itself, think about it :)
2007-09-22 01:53:04 · answer #1 · answered by Mr Biscuits 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is precious and impossible to replace. Things, even precious things, are common.
End of discussion.
2007-09-22 08:53:47 · answer #2 · answered by claudiacake 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You cannot replace the precious things that you lose. Your parents, your children, your spouse, your pet, your self-esteem or your life. That is why it is so important to appreciate what you have that is not material. Life is never common or menial. Every living thing is important to me whether it is a plant or an animal or a person
2007-09-22 08:57:27 · answer #3 · answered by victoria c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The real precious things in life have no materialism to them, so they don't really have to be replaced. On the whole material things are never really precious, they link us to the past, stunt growth, and more often than not make us blind to new and exciting things in the present.
2007-09-24 02:07:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although life is common to us all our individual lives have little in common, not even that which each hold precious. Good subject by the way.
2007-09-22 09:25:48 · answer #5 · answered by julyntaylor1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is precious! You only get one! There are no second chances, no repeats. Life in itself is not rare, it is everywhere and everyone who is alive today has one - but think about YOUR life: It is rare and impossible to replace.
2007-09-22 09:56:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those grounds can be easily shaken. First,because it's probably a sentence that someone said and,therefore,it translates the view of that person alone - and so it's only true if you agree with it. I personally don't, so it's not true to me. Secondly,you can't simply dismiss something just because it's ordinary - imagine the number of things we would have to dispose of. It reminds me of some friends who sometimes judge me for saying something that - in their point of view - is predictable. Well,I wouldn't stop saying it just because it's predictable. That would be a great restraint for me. The more you give in to judgemental opinions,the less freedom you'll have - and that's the one thing which is simultaneously ordinary and hard to replace. Don't you agree?
2007-09-27 10:30:59 · answer #7 · answered by margarida c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On a cosmological and ontological level, life is actually quite precious, rare and impossible to replace...
2007-09-22 09:41:08 · answer #8 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question reminds me of the Indian government official who refused to have a man-eating tiger shot, saying "Our country has too many peasants, but not enough tigers."
Things are not precious because rare (or blue turds would be worth a fortune), nor are they contemptible because common (or we shouldn't care about children). The categories involved do sometimes overlap (e.g. diamonds on one hand & dust on the other), but it's not as simple as your question implies.
2007-09-26 06:00:49 · answer #9 · answered by Michael B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely, and as long as every life is precious to someone the statement is true.
2007-09-25 12:45:29 · answer #10 · answered by Deb G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋