Is ALL life precious?

[Faint]

3 out of 5 Victors agree that all life is inherently valuable, and the death penalty is wrong.

The Universal Faint Society for Human Termination (TUFSHT) claims that not every life is worth preserving, and in fact that some lives should be terminated. Such lives include repeat child rapists, murderers, people named Fred Phelps, people who are about to kill yourself and/or your family (self-defense in other words), generals who order their troops to commit atrocities, and so forth.

Furthermore, TUFSHT believes that we as humans have the right to pass judgement on other humans because their existence affects our own lives.

What do you think?

 

[Quiddity]

What do you think?

I think all life is precious.

 

[standing_alone]

I have to disagree with you on this, I don't believe we should pass judgement by killing - but you make a good offer with Fred Phelps.

 

[cardero]

Is ALL life precious?
No, all life is precarious.

 

[Quiddity]

Is ALL life precious?
No, all life is precarious.

That is a given but outiside of chance what do you think?

 

[standing_alone]

I want to add to what I've said:

I don't think all life is precious, per se, but I don't think we should kill those who we deem are not precious.

 

[Quiddity]

I want to add to what I've said:

I don't think all life is precious, per se, but I don't think we should kill those who we deem are not precious.

Why not? *plays devils advocate*

 

[standing_alone]

Why not? *plays devils advocate*

Grrrr. Why must you ask me such questions when I have to leave for class?

I'll get back to you on that.

 

[Bishka]

3 out of 5 Victors agree that all life is inherently valuable, and the death penalty is wrong.

The Universal Faint Society for Human Termination (TUFSHT) claims that not every life is worth preserving, and in fact that some lives should be terminated. Such lives include repeat child rapists, murderers, people named Fred Phelps, people who are about to kill yourself and/or your family (self-defense in other words), generals who order their troops to commit atrocities, and so forth.

Furthermore, TUFSHT believes that we as humans have the right to pass judgement on other humans because their existence affects our own lives.

What do you think?

Yes, I think all life is precious. ALL of it. I agree with Victor on this.

 

[dawny0826]

I too believe that all life is precious.

 

[Maxist]

Yes, I have always agreed with the group. Some lives are not worth having life. But while we should, as individual humans have the right to decide weather another human life worth living or not. However we should not neccissarily act on this impulse; I am completely anti-Relativist ---as I have stated before--- and have no intension of advocating it.

 

[FerventGodSeeker]

What amazes me is that so many people who oppose the death penalty and claim "all life is precious" won't stand up against abortion and defend the most innocent and defenseless lives among us!
I personally believe that, while all humans have natural rights, including the right to live, you surrender that right when you maliciously and intentionally take the life of an innocent person.

FerventGodSeeker

 

[Mister Emu]

All life is precious...

 

[standing_alone]

Why not? *plays devils advocate*

What I mean by all life isn't precious is because there are some really, really bad people out there (in my opinion - everyone's opinion differs on what is really, really bad) that do really bad things (to me, bad things are things like hurting people, killing people, etc.). What I mean that we shouldn't kill people because we don't deem them as precious is because I don't believe we should kill people just as revenge for them doing bad things. I don't know, it's hard to explain, it's late, and I've had a bad day. Sorry.

 

[Jaymes]

I think all sentient life is precious.

I'd like to see a show of hands for anyone that washes their hands, drives a car, or eats meat for those that said "all life is precious."

 

[Sunstone]

Despite appearances, the notion that all life is precious is not contradicted by the cosmic tragedy that life feeds on life, and that death and killing are a part of nature. It may confuse our modern sensibilities that there is such an apparent contradiction between those two things, but historically many peoples seem to have been able to hold both views simultaneously. The bushido class in Japan, for instance. Or the ancient Greeks.

 

[Ormiston]

I'm going with the unpopular view. As precious as life is, it's not precious enough to preserve ALL of it. Sometimes killing is appropriate to preserve your own precious life.

 

[FerventGodSeeker]

I'm going with the unpopular view. As precious as life is, it's not precious enough to preserve ALL of it. Sometimes killing is appropriate to preserve your own precious life.

I agree...killing in self-defense is obviously acceptable.

 

[Ormiston]

I agree...killing in self-defense is obviously acceptable.

Why is it obvious?

 

[turk179]

I agree that all life is precious and that most sentient creatures would agree that their life is precious but do all sentient creatures deserve that precious life after committing atrocities? I would have to say no. Leaving this decision up to the masses can cause some serious problems though.