Why is Human life considered precious?

The question: Why is Human life considered precious?

The answer: Because Human Beings are both intelligent and sentient.

I think its the predator/prey analogy that fits it best. That and the fact that by vilifying what hunts humans, it works to ensure our survival as a race, which is still one of those pesky instincts that we carry around. Also, I remember reading before that one of the things that mankind hates the most is something that it doesn't understand. Simple example in the real world is how much hate straight people have for homosexuals. Without ever knowing their situation [or understanding them] they hate them because they just don't understand what makes them tick.

That was the long answer, the short is simply that people have an interest in staying alive, so of course human life [their life] is more precious than that of a cow/dog/monkey/vampire/dragon/beast thingie.

We consider our own lives just like any other living species would of their own kind, it's just we're capable of vocally expressing it or writing about it.

Really we've only done what every species is trying to do: stay alive. We simply have a meaner way of doing it. Others keep to themselves, depend on their ability to run and others on their ability to fight. We look around, see a threat and wipe it out. It's always been like that with us, I mean look at the neanderthals (...Is that how you spell it). They were so much more stronger than us. They're dead.

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I don't see human life as precious. Not at this stage.
Over seven billion people are living on the planet right now. We lose one person, he/she will be replaced by many more incredibly quickly. Our taactic of survival and our vast number has wiped out an INSANE amount of species. Weve destroyed invironmensts and damaged the world horrificly. I don't think many people have a life we should call precious.

The reasons Humans feel that there exstience is precious is because of alturism/luck.With out that they would have died out all ready.

That seems unlikely, There hasn't been many threats to humanity that hasn't been easily dealt with. Apart from humanity itself.

Exactly humans are there own worse enemy. Soon alturism etc will deal the final sword slash and the Human species wll be null .

Unforunately with a massive amount of others. It's not like we'll go quetly.

But it will happen eventually its just a matter of when.

But we use that "smart" part to go against ourselfs, which, in my opinion cancels the smart part. we get smarter than each other just to trample on ourselfs even when we are all the same species



your right saint

Evil is based on what perspective you are looking at it from, if you look at it from the mouse, it would consider the cat to be evil. What we consider evil is either what we don't know, or what we do know to be harmful to us.

(I hate when people call things evil, you could just say that you believe something to be evil instead of branding something with the title, and a lot of times, what is evil generates from religion, which is 1 of the many reasons why I am anti-religion.)

I haven't read the whole thread but I'm gonna give a short(and simple?) answer anyway:

Humans tend to show more sympathy towards humans or human like animals, witch probably is a product of evolution. Because it will help humans to survive more if they help eachother than if they would try to help some kind of animal.

Human life is precious? I disagree ... in this world you are born pure and simple, that alone can considered to be precious, but if you grow up and develop an ugly character and do ugly things, then you disgraced that precious gift of yours.

It is the individuals themselves that define their life to be either precious, or down right shitty, I cannot judge the lives of others, nor do I have the power to assume if their lives are special or not.

Life always repetitive. You can predict life.

Stages of life = go to school > get a job > marriage > have a kid > pension > dead.

See.. it keeps repeating over and over again.

The main question:

Human life is precious because it is the life we experience. Other mammals of our species have probably committed insurmountable triumphs that would be similar to sending a man to the moon in terms of stress and worth so it's not the weight of our deeds. Self-preservation does not make human life precious there are plenty of people that gamble with their lives either for financial or moral reasons. In the end the act of experiencing life in a fashion that is unique to us makes it invaluable.

For the question of what I would do to a vampire:

To be honest you kinda lost me after that little restriction on the end, there's no end to the amount of fascination accumulated from my years of hoarding occult and arcane knowledge, to actually be able to unravel the mysteries surrounding it's physiology would bring me boundless elation. Of course I am no barbarian, only with the consent of the vampire would I ever dare attempt a post-post-mortem (emphasis on mortem and post since vampires are technically undead) examination. I digress.

Well I suppose that's my answer, I really would not care. If the vampire bites me because I'm so careless I'll simply have to put on alot of sunscreen when I go out.

People go on living with the system without even questioning it .. Human life cannot be considered precious if all they do is the same thing over and over again ...

This whole time many people lived a "white" life without even asking " Hey .. why are they red, blue, green , yellow .. why are these few individuals filled with color and many of us just white?"

Life is precious if filled with the experiences of their own decisions.

For me I am living a white life for 7 years, I haven't done much in these 7 years and to me they are nothing .. because 7 years are not worth remembering .. probably that's why I forget a lot.

Human life, is only precious when we know the person or this persons existence matters to us - but when this person's death does not affect our lives at ALL, human's dont care.

Millions die over multiple countries but does anyone grieve over them? You see a dead guy on the news, do you really feel anything? And for how long exactly does it last? A few minutes? Then you start worrying again about your next happy activity?

We love 'claiming' it is precious and sounding so magnanimous but really, how few genuinely care??? Hypocricy almost all of them.

Too many humans are made by the hour, do we as a species celebrate? If its my sister's or friends its ok, or mine but when China is making a lot of babies we hate it. They're all equally human.

It is precious only in WORDS. In real life out there, it is NOT. Human life is not any different from the lives of any animal out there or of any species living on this planet

Because of who I am, part of me considers all life precious in both the literal, figurative and spiritual sense. But also because of who I am, I believe life is only as precious as you make it. Then another part of me believes nothing is precious and all is down right shitty and pointless and will end in nothingness. And yet still another part thinks believe what you want to, it matters not, the world will still continue onward even after all the fleeting definitions are gone.

People's life aren't equal to me, some deserve to die. Besides, in some way, the world is better off without humans,