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Right To Life

Discussion in 'Faith & Religion' started by Ken Anderson, Nov 23, 2018.

  1. Bobby Cole

    Bobby Cole Supreme Member
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    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.
     
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  2. Lulu Moppet

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    Esoteric Bobby.
     
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  3. Bobby Cole

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    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.
     
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