Your point of view is non-rational. You can't get meaning from non-meaning. People either have intrinsic value or they don't. There is no in between.
Okay, have it your way: they don't. More specifically, you don't.
Does that idea bother you, exmarine? Would you stop going to church then? Without the threat of everlasting damnation, would you run amuck and fulfill your wildest personal-power fantasies with your gun or your M-16? And if not, then why bother with the distinction at all?