CoffeeTalkers!
Over the week in Florida I had a discussion about lives, and what makes one more valuable than another. The discussion turned out to be more hostile than I thought it would, but the meat and potatoes of it was the value of a life. We were discussing China vs. America, but that is just the inspiration of this thought. At first, I made the broad statement that all lives we were the same, and for the debates concern, I stuck with that, after the evenings talk was over it hit me, what makes you more valuable than someone else, really?
I still believe that when we are born and take our first breathes, we are worth the same, we are a new soul with the same possibilities, but as we grow older and make choices based on situations, and facts, we start to either be valueable or not.
Value? To each of us this is a different definition, but is there a equation that is iron clad to make you a valuable human being?
For me value makes things more positive on our earth, it won’t strip anything of worth. Money has always been a scale on which we can monitor value, but it has ripped friends, families, companies, and countries apart. Today it causes humans to murder, steal, lie, and cheat, and yet we still use it to establish a value in something.
The things that I feel valuable is Love, Honor, Friendship, and Trust. The way you can monitor these things is the amout of love, honor, friendship and trust that you give, unlike money, it is not based on how much you get, but how much you are able to provide.
My question to you Coffee Talkers is; What do you find most Valuable? How do you monitor how valuable you and others are? What makes one life more Valuable than the other? What is Value to you?
My heart is with you on your journey,
Lizzy
April 28th, 2008 at 11:38 am
To place more value on one life than another is to put yourself in the position of being God. And that’s a position that none of us would really want to be in if we really think about it.
To put more value on one peoples lives than another peoples lives, is a simple and cruel person’s way to justify war and the loss of life that will result.
To place equal value on all lives is the enlightened person’s challenge that leads to peace and harmony. This is the road that is roughest to travel, but the only road to the possibility of hope.