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My kids life is worth more than mine. So yes.

Wow! These results are way more split than I expected!

I am shocked. How can one human's life be more valuable than another? I truly beleive that this mentality is what is wrong with the world.

Society's standpoint, yes. My standpoint, no.

At least to the individual yes.

No, but some people think they are.

Practically speaking, obviously not. You just have to look around the world a little. Or even look at how America values the lives of different people. Ideally all lives would be worth the same, but we're far from being in an ideal world.

It is all relative. Worth more to whom? To me, my husband and kids' lives are more important than anyone else. To Catholics it is the Pope perhaps. To our country it might be Obama. Etc.

Awesome question. And yes, I believe there are people worth killing for.

To anyone who said no: you honestly think Hitler's life was worth just as much as Mother Theresa's?

Before God, no. In all other ways, yes.

Depends on how much change they have on their pockets.

In a relativist sense, yes. That is, the lives of some people have more value to each of us than others. In a real sense, each is just one of over seven billion, hardly scarce enough to have any value at all.

Of course there are

I'd say yes because I would take a bullet for the President (even Obama) and for my family but not for many other people. So in my view, yes, but thats not necessarily a bad thing.

We may always think there are. But at the end of the day, we are all human.. Not one better than the other

A human is a human is a human. However, some are politically more valuable, some are biologically more valuable (a kid with many years of life remaining versus an elderly person with a few years remaining), and so forth. So I'm not really sure…

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."

My life is worth more than any member of a hate group, terrorists, murderers, rapists, pedophiles, etc. So yes, some lives are worth more than others.

In the grand scheme of things, no.

But personally, my child's life is more important than mine.
I think the children are always more important.

Well.... It's more important that the President stay safe & alive than most people.

That is essentially the message in war, in the death penalty, etc. And I believe it. If I had to shoot someone so they didn't kill, say, a child, I would - and I wouldn't hesitate.