Right to life. Do I have a right to life? I have some somewhat ambivalent feelings about it but for now, I'm alive and do find some value in it. I'm alive so with that I certainly do have some rights which include all of the things I need to survive. Every cell in my body since before my birth until this very moment is in a battle to stay alive. All of my DNA contains latent memories of those experiences of generations who went before me. Each person passing down a little of themselves. Father and mother to son and daughter. A human existence bent on sustaining another human existence. I value my existence. Do I have a right to life? I do not know but that really isn't the question, now is it? One question is whether or not someone else has a right to take my life away from me and under what conditions will ethics allow such a thing? The other question is whether I have the right to take someone else's life? Do they not value theirs as much as mine? Maybe not. Maybe it is only I who values my own life whilst others merely exist and if such is the case, maybe it is permissible to simply not care about someone else and their life. Maybe I can rationalize some distant equation by which someone else's untimely death by my hand is okay. After all, they do not place the same value upon themselves, as I do myself,...…………..or do they? They do.
Unfortunately, how right you are. We’re a jaded people on a jaded planet and only a few carry the concerns of others as their own. We were once uncivilized and had no moral nor ethical standards then, after a time, became learned and more cultured and consequently have found better, easier and more conscientious ways to do away with others who have a lesser right to life than ourselves.