The Value of Life

[chaoticjoy1]

Good and Evil

Those are truly good, have a life worth living.

Those who are truly evil, should not live.

[imnothere]

life can not be so black and white, left and right, on and off, ect separated. there is always the gray, the middle, the low power ect. i must ask you again to elaborate.

[chaoticjoy1]

Those who are neutral are good to me. Neutral to me are those who commit crimes or do bad things, but never did anything extreme. They still have some sort of value. The Evil on the other hand are those who have committed murder or anything ending a humans life willingly. Evil is the cancels all value of that person's life. But being Good and Neutral, they still have value. Just the Good have way more value than the Neutral.

[Holeypaladin]

There's actually no justification for the atom bombs. They were targeted to kill as many civilians as possible, a horrendous crime of war.

Whether they brought an end to the war is immaterial. The end does not justify the means.

[imnothere]

Those who are neutral are good to me. Neutral to me are those who commit crimes or do bad things, but never did anything extreme. They still have some sort of value. The Evil on the other hand are those who have committed murder or anything ending a humans life willingly. Evil is the cancels all value of that person's life. But being Good and Neutral, they still have value. Just the Good have way more value than the Neutral.

your still seeing things in trems of this or that. what i'm trying to get you to see is that there are finite gradations between this and that that are immeasurable.

take for example the human voice. (i'm a singer so this analogy is the first to come to mind) there are the notes that we know and learn on the staff and that can be played by other instruments. among those notes are the values of sharp and flat. but there is still sound between A and A# and those sounds (yes plural) have no name, have no gradation. if you were aiming for A# and didnt make it, but werent so flat as to hit A your still not on A# and therefor flat.
do you see what i'm saying?
probably not
let me try again

there are things in life that can not be boxed up all nice and net in a "good" or "bad" label. they are almost good or almost bad or any where in between the point being that no one person is wholly one or the other. no one person is "pure good" or "pure evil" we all have elements of both and waver between one or the other at different times in our life. some people may appear "good" but be "bad" or even appear "bad" and be "good". and even then that is only for that moment of their life. they may be something else the next.

so you see what i'm getting at is you shouldnt judge someone based on one good or one bad thing they do in their life. you shouldnt judge someone based even on the intentions of one action in their life.
people are always changing, and the fact that they are not who they were 2 seconds ago should be respected.

[DeSalvionjr]

life has a value beyond measure... value is also relative...

[chaoticjoy1]

- Revised -

Deleted.

Reason: Forgot about religion rule

[Humility]

Incorrect. A value can't be set to each individual life since we are all equal human beings. Now you may feel the man who has done naught has a life that means naught, but other people will always interpret his life differently? For example, if this hypothetical man had loving parents, they would treasure his life regardless of what he has done, or lack thereof. Like I said, life is what you make of it. If you're going to hold a condescending attitude towards individuals that have done less than say, you have then so be it.

Saying "Its all a matter of opinion" is utterly pointless and boring.

[Skirata]

A value can't be set to each individual life since we are all equal human beings.

Are we equal human beings?

[rasterbee]

Are we equal human beings?

Nah, we aren't all equal.

Some people are valuable, productive and cause positive reverberations with their actions.

Others are destructive, vile and leave trails of worthlessness.

People aren't equal.