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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.

I've been following this debate for a while between you and exmarine. To be honest, when you first started I wasn't sure where you were going. I tend to pay high respect to what you write, normally, but I couldn't get it. I think I do now. Subjectivity in regards to human life is only normal, but it does not imply moral behavior or relativism, as exmarine puts it. There is a value to all life, but people value terrorists far less than family and friends. People value family and friends far more than strangers, but that does not make killing the stranger a moral thing to do. Simply because you place no value on my life for instance (subjective), you cannot simply kill me and justify it as moral. Subjective value does not necessitate moral relativism. Or something like that.