People have different values. A doctor is more valuable than a homeless person with no education. Everyone isn't equally valuable, but everyone is equal. The doctor is more valuable than the homeless person, but they are equal. The value of their life is exactly the same regardless of race, gender, or any other genetically defined characteristic.
If the homeless person witnessed your daughter being taken and you needed him to tell you what car they got into, he would probably be the most valuable person you've ever met.
Value is real, even in people. It's also reletive.
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Trying to ad up a persons total value is both unquantifiable and irrelevent. Treat all people like people because you dont know their whole story.
"And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."
"It's a lot more complicated than that--"
"No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts."
"Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--"
"But they starts with thinking about people as things..."
- from Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
Value is real, even in people. It's also reletive.
.
Trying to ad up a persons total value is both unquantifiable and irrelevent. Treat all people like people because you dont know their whole story.
"It's a lot more complicated than that--"
"No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts."
"Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--"
"But they starts with thinking about people as things..."
- from Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett