Why don't people value human life?

Answer 1

This question can't be answered properly as you've asked it because you're asking it as an absolute. And it is not an absolute statement. Many, if not most, people do value human life.

You should re-ask this as:

Why don't many people value human life? (or)
Why don't more people value human life? (or)
Why don't enough people value human life?

Answer 2

I think what you might actually be asking is "why don't people value other human life?" --because most people value their own lives very much. So much, in fact, that it has a tendency to cause them to value the lives of humans around them at much less than their own.

Answer 3

I think it's because they don't realize what a gift it is. A human life is a miraculous, marvelous work and a wonder.

Sometimes, we forget that. And sometimes, life gets so hard that people want a way out.

And sometimes, people realize that life is but a blip of experience in our eternal journeys. They know that there is another existence beyond life.

But if they realized that there are things we can experience only here on earth while in our earthly human flesh bodies, they would, indeed, value human life very much.

Answer 4

With a population of six billion? Hell it's a cheaper commodity these days. It's a wonder we don't have many more wars going on than what we do eh?
Some peoples children just don't understand the meaning of the word 'value'. Cheap and tacky they can grasp, but value in life? Naw!!!

Answer 5

Some people do value human life.

Some people don't value human life.

Try not to generalize.

Answer 6

Most people do value human life. Exceptions seems to be people with very low self esteem (putting themselves in the other person's "shoes" doesn't mean much since they feel so badly about themselves) and people who were trained by an organization (government, cult, etc.) to believe that the enemy are not real people. (During war time, soldiers are often repeatedly told that the other people are logs or tree stumps, etc.) Very sad.
Om shante. Let there be peace.

Answer 7

What makes you think that, where are you living? up til now everyone I know values Human life, every body even values, animal and plant life, Honestly, I wonder why in the world yo would even think that. Cheer up, and move from whatever hole you live in.

Answer 8

If one doesn't champion one's inner child, the joyful times and feelings, one tends to devalue life.

Some wonderful books by some who've learned to value human life:

"When Invisible Children Sing," Huang, M.D.

"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, Ph.D.

"The Beautiful Story of a Master," Louise-Marie Frenette.

"Babies Remember Birth," David Chamberlain, Ph.D. and "The Biology of Transcendence," Joseph Chilton Pearce; both indicate that respect for children and mothers at birth helps people value human life. (Babies who gaze steadily at their mothers in the first 45 minutes after birth, retain their consciousness (according to mri scans, etc.), while those who are not so able, lose consciousness for several months, before it rises to the level (of mri activity) which it was at birth.)

"Extraordinary Knowing," Elizabeth Mayer, Ph.D.

"University of Destruction," David Wheaton.

"Watch Your Dreams," Ann Ree Colton.

"Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet.

"Man, Master of His Destiny," O. M. Aivanhov.

cordially,

j.

Answer 9

Because evolution makes us feel that our needs are very important. We are programmed to think "I *must* have food" "I *must* have physical intimacy with someone I love". Well maybe not in so many words but you get my point. Sometimes this strong self-concern has negative consequences. How many murders are crimes of passion?

Answer 10

Most people do. Why did you say that?