I'm not talking about dollars and cents. Can you measure the true value of a human being? What criteria would you use? Are some people of higher value than others? How do you decide?
Believers will say, "Everyone is equal in God's eyes."
But that philosophy of equality is in fact not practiced by ALL believers, nor is it necessarily the thinking of all NON-believers.
What do you think?
2007-12-18 11:55:07 · 8 answers · asked by ThisIsIt! 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As I write this, there have been 8 responses. I just thought I'd let you all know that I got the idea from a book about Albert Einstein. He wrote in letter to a friend, "The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self."
2007-12-18 13:09:07 · update #1
well, when you talk of value, i suppose it is important for you decide what has value and what does not.
i think it's we all have the ability to achieve value, but we can choose to achieve or not to. so no person is more valuable than another, since all are capable of achieving value.
2007-12-18 12:01:29 · answer #1 · answered by Ames 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like it or not, measuring the value of a human being requires a perspective.
From a legal perspective, it equals the amount of money that person would earn over the remaining years of their working lives. For a sociopath, a human being is worth exactly what is needed to reach a goal. For a mother, the life of a child is worth exactly her own life -- what she would pay to save her child from harm.
In God's eyes, you are worth as much as I am -- enough for him to enter this dirty and evil world, take on the form of an infant, live in poverty and die a criminal's death -- just to show that there is a way out of the endless cycle of greed and violence we take for granted.
2007-12-18 12:04:21 · answer #2 · answered by Jeanster 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-11 08:50:02 · answer #3 · answered by leister 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think 'value' is subjective. it might be measurable in an abstract sort of way, however everyone has his/her own interpretation of the criteria to measure such value.
2007-12-18 12:08:29 · answer #4 · answered by ally 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Created in the image of God with the capacity of containing the Holy Spirit.
I don't think it can be done.
2007-12-18 12:02:51 · answer #5 · answered by Caveman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trust me on this one...
Everyone is NOT "equal in value".
(And NO, "Haters", there's not a hint of Racism intended here!)
2007-12-18 12:03:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. We are worth the life of the Son of God.
2007-12-18 12:01:54 · answer #7 · answered by Mercedes 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think man is valued by his heart and how much he care,s
for his fellow human,s,,his family,,and his God.
2007-12-18 12:05:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋