[Alamo-Girl]

How do you objectively determine the relative worth between two individuals? Do you use a grading sheet? What criteria do you place upon that grading sheet? How were the criteria arrived at?

Er, I can't resist one more time with the legal definition. Under the Supreme Court, looking at two people, both have the value of the highest of the two. Under the law, you are of equal value to the Pope - but that is because in the U.S. are men are legally "created equal" - i.e. valued equally.

[Junior]

So, the fellows who blew up the Twin Towers are as valuable as Mother Theresa? If you had a choice between saving the life of Mother Theresa or those fellows who would you choose? How about the choice between your child and a perfect stranger? We obviously value some people more than we value others (kin over friends, friends over strangers, etc.). Because your subset of kin and friends does not intersect my subset of the same, we will value different people more highly than others. Hence, my argument that values are purely subjective.