Should a defective child forfeit its right to live, because it does not possess some" state of being" that gives it intrinsic value ? What gives a human being "value"??? Good looks???
2007-11-02 14:50:21 · 22 answers · asked by Eartha Q 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
funny Don...and true!
2007-11-02 15:16:47 · update #1
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what are you talking about?
2007-11-02 15:21:39 · update #2
Good looks are a cosmic joke. They disappear and leave you a bag of wrinkles.
love and blessings Don
2007-11-02 14:53:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Every human is more valuable than one thinks. God made the human above the Angels of God. Because God gave us the ability to reason and think, and the ability to choose. The Angels don't have any of that. So that makes us very valuable. Even the children born handicapped, can't speak, can't walk, retarded, all are of value in some way.
2007-11-02 22:17:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"A lake of gold in a desert is less than a cool fresh spring." In everyone's eyes, something has different value. One view that never changes, however, is God's. God believes everyone is valuable; he created you and loves you dearly.
No matter what the world values in a human, whether it be good looks, personality, intelligence, productivity to improve society, you will always have value from God!
Best of luck!
2007-11-02 21:54:36 · answer #3 · answered by Confused Teen 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A human being's "value" is completely arbitrarily assigned by other human beings. In reality, we're not worth all that much to the rest of reality.
If we were all magically gone tomorrow, the universe would just keep on existing without us.
Humans can be really haughty sometimes.
2007-11-02 21:52:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If we killed people off that were sick or maimed or born with a defect there wouldn't be any people left at all. There is no such thing as "perfect genetics". Look at Stephen Hawking - he is severely physically handicapped, but his mind puts most of the rest of ours to shame with his capabilities. Should he be killed because he's in a wheelchair? Only if we are all fools.
2007-11-02 21:56:21 · answer #5 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being a human being. To other human beings, at least. I don't imagine we are particularly valuable to the earth as a whole, apart from in a fertilizing capacity.
2007-11-02 21:55:21 · answer #6 · answered by Rafael 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the answer to that question is; are you valuable? afterall, you are a human being and your answer is as good as anyone elses. For the rest of the question about a defective being, you have to be more specific on that
2007-11-02 21:54:01 · answer #7 · answered by uz 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-11-02 21:52:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
firstly, god decides who lives or dies, its just that some people are just bad and care less about life if it doesnt suit their own thinking, life is a lesson to us all, thank god we can see further with the heart than we can with the eye, what gives us value ?, the answer would be each other
2007-11-02 22:03:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
I imagine on a good day all your viable organs could go for well over a million dollars.
2007-11-02 21:54:47 · answer #10 · answered by Holy Holly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋