Are some human lives worth more than others?
(question stolen from posting about okc's blog)
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This post made me google Emil Kirkegaard and damn, that Rational Wiki article is biased as fuck.
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yea it sounds like it was written at 6 am by someone who got woken up by their neighbor's car alarm and, upon deciding to just get on with their day, discovered they were out of coffee
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Easy case for me: baby or really old person vs middle aged adult
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A life is a potential flower blossoming for a brief moment. It can only be valued in a qualitative sense by a subject. All lives are equal in that they are inextricable from their source context and each one will be valued differently by those able to behold. I voted for "No".
No, because it is impossible to reconcile value judgements made by people over value of any life. This complicates debates over when life starts and when life ends - abortion and assisted suicide or brain death
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No because we are all clinging on to a rock flying through a void towards oblivion.
In the grand scheme of things we are all equally worthless.