What Qualities Make Our Life Worth Value?

What is the value of life? The answer varies from person to person. Everyone has different perspectives and morals.people have different different experiences that can shape and bend their views on life and how they perceive it. The trials, tribulations, and trauma people go through can impact their thought process and how they see and value their life and the lives around them.

In this passage the central conclusion is that the value of life, whether that be humans or animals is contributed to the quality of life, the quality is related to its richness being related to the life’s capacity of enrichment. (LaFollette, Hugh. Ethics in Practice: An Anthology. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1997. Print.) Frey gives support to this conclusion by recognizing that not all individuals from a moral group are individuals that have lives with equal value or significance within both humans and animals. (LaFollette, Hugh. Ethics in Practice: An Anthology. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1997. Print.) In support this statement, Frey claims there are different moral standings of most human lives. Some examples were an infant with disadvantages, a disabled person and elderly person with a severe case of Alzheimer’s disease. Frey then supports these claims by saying that if we agree with these claims it is clear that we are not using species membership to determine the value and moral standing of an individual but instead as the quality of an individual’s life. An additional support of the central conclusion is that this view allows for animals to have more value than a human

What exactly is the value of life? Most people say that the value of life can be determined by money, fame, or even accomplishments. One person might add that life is not worth living if you have nothing. It’s up to the people to make their own lives more valuable and enjoyable. Life is a journey and you never know what you will experience.

Everyone is brought into the world with a purpose and a value, but it is up to that person whether or not they maintain their value. Like I had previously stated one way they could lose their value is by not admitting to wrong doings, but another way is by not living to their full potential. So many people give up because they think they aren’t worth it, and if they feel that they have lost value then others will begin to see them in a similar light. But each human has value, each one of us are here on this earth for a reason and to serve a purpose. So I guess you could say a person's value is derived from their purpose. That is not to say that a doctor has more value than a waitress, but both are of more value than the people that give up and sit back depending on others to take care of them when they are perfectly fine and able. Everyone starts their life with value, but over time many seem to let their value diminish at their own accord. The value of someone’s life is completely controlled by that person and how they chose to live and act throughout the span of their

What is an asset? Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an asset as, “A valuable person or thing.” This cultivates a new question, what makes a person valuable? What I find valuable, another person may find useless. In the aspect of a classroom, I value someone who is diverse and open-minded. As well as a person who speaks their mind and participates in group conversations. These were the qualities I looked for when given the assignment to interview a classmate and find how they are an asset to the class. When given the name of my interviewee, I was unsure who exactly it was. I met a short girl with brown eyes. At first thought, I was worried. What if I could not get any information that would aid my essay. Thankfully, this was not the case. When interviewing Noam, her diversity and opened mindedness stood out. She showed the willingness and determination to understand topics, as well as her caring personality. All the qualities Noam possessed, amazed me and made me feel she is of value to the class.

The big ethical debate on the dignity of all life being valuable and meaningful focused on old philosophical acceptance of social contract theory and religious doctrine. The "equal value theory" of human right is established in the contractual agreement with the state and with it grantee laws, protections of the cognitive disabled to ensure their personal claim to justice. The problem with this, then becomes there is not the equal value of protection of the law for nonhuman animals because they have no status of personhood per a contractual law agreement. Singer argues, “that to grant human beings higher moral status than nonhuman animals with what they call “comparable” intellectual ability is arbitrary and unjustified” (pg.5). To abandoned the old order of human moral reasoning, would lead to the human community adopting the nonhuman animal into personhood. The dangerous of taking claim to entitlement of superior of the species in regards to human over nonhuman animals could per Singer “lead to imaginary situations in which aliens are conquering humans, and leading to eventually the humans trying to defend their status of personhood” (pg.

Reading all of the article’s that we had read in class I had realized that everyone has a different value on life. Hamlet couldn’t care less about what happened in his life he just wanted to be gone, the victims families of 9/11 had thought that their loved ones lives were worth more than what the government had calculated, Ebert only cared about making himself and others happy, and Spiegelman had included many presentations on the values of life in his graphic novel. All of the values in life vary- from person to person. Part of your life is struggling through the bad stuff to get to the good stuff. Something to value most in life is when people cherish life no matter what’s thrown their way. Throughout all of these articles that isn’t the

I had many mixed views after finishing my most recent read of The Best Things in Life: A Guide to What Really Matters, by Thomas Hurka. I agreed with his ideas that pain is greater than pleasure. I also opposed the views that not all pains are bad and not all pleasures are good.

Why should moral agents regard wild living things in the natural world as possessing inherent worth? To answer this question we must first take into account the fact that, when rational, autonomous agents subscribe to the principles of moral consideration and intrinsic value and so conceive of wild living things as having that kind of worth, such agents are adopting a certain ultimate moral attitude toward the natural world. This is the attitude I call “respect for nature.” It parallels the attitude of respect for persons in human ethics. When we adopt the attitude of respect for persons as the proper (fitting, appropriate) attitude to take toward all persons as persons, we consider the fulfillment of the basic interests of each individual

“Core values are the deeply ingrained principles that guide all of a company’s actions; they serve as its cultural cornerstones. They can never be compromised, either for convenience or short-term economic gain” (Lencioni, 2002).

But just as basic is the notion that we have value because God values us. Steve Hayner, a theologian who died earlier this year, illustrated this point to me when he observed that gold is valuable not because there is something about gold that is intrinsically of great worth but because someone values it. Similarly, human beings have worth because we are valued by God, who took on flesh, entered our world, and shared our experiences — love, joy, compassion and intimate friendships; anger, sorrow, suffering and tears. For Christians, God is not distant or detached; he is a God of wounds. All of this elevated the human experience and laid the groundwork for the ideas of individual dignity and inalienable rights.

The morality of killing animals (when there is no suffering involved) posses a challenge for utilitarian ethics. This topic is primarily addressed in practical ethics, given the enormous consequences that animal farming have on billions of animals every year. However, this problem goes further, to the core of utilitarian ethics, having to address issues such as value theory, the value of different lives and the importance of psychology in matters of life and death. My objective is to address this issue working within a utilitarian framework.

In this paper I argue from the premise that life is morally valuable. While life’s moral value has historically been argued from a number of positions, ranging from those limited only to the value of the human soul and consciousness (Descartes), to those embracing the value of all sentient creatures (Bentham, Singer), the value of organisms with rational self-consciousness (Lombardi), the inherent value of living organisms (Taylor), or even life’s value as a simple derivation from the fact that everything is intrinsically valuable (Smith, 1997), I will argue primarily from the biocentrist position that all life, nonsentient and sentient, has moral value. But while many may agree

I think these values could help me narrow down on my major. I think my adaptability will help me choose a job that always changing and never the same every day. A job that requires a lot of out of office work would be perfect for me. I would love to have a job that could help society. If my career was not directly evolved in helping the community, I would hope to partner with a charity or volunteer in my spare time. Helping the community is great because it benefits other people and exposes one to more people/situations. Being admired is one of my top five values. I choose this because I want to have a career in which I am recognize within that community. If I had a big platform, I would love to use it to help the community. Financial freedom

Many scholars agree that life is inestimable, but people in their action place a dollar value on human life when they make a decision to choose between good and bad. Some prefer to spend more money to buy a house in a safe environment instead of buying a cheap one in an unsafe place. Others pay more to get an insurance that covers more risks than a cheaper insurance that has a limited coverage. When someone buys an inexpensive car but less safe, he or she makes a trade between money and the risk of dying. Our behavior puts a dollar value on life even we are not aware of the fact. For me, valuable life means to help a person to take more responsibilities about his or her health. Since we live in a world with limited resource, decisions should