I disagree. There are many things more important than life.
Self-sacrifice. Loyalty. Freedom. Faith. Martyrdom.
These do not diminish the value of life, in fact, they heighten the value of life. We honor equally those who lived meaningful lives, as well as those who were inclined to surrender their lives for a meaningful end.
Life is a sacred opportunity. An individual’s life and death are all they ever really own, all that really define them, everything they are and everything that they were.
Our lives are our most precious things. And yet, as this gift is given to us all, we know that all of us in time will have to surrender it again. All of what is best in us and all that is the worst in us will be forfeit.
Is it not exalted to place what we prize over our very life itself? To say that life itself is not the most important thing in our lives, even though as mortals, it often is.
Self-sacrifice. Loyalty. Freedom. Faith. Martyrdom.
That is why to take the chance for these exalted acts from others, by depriving them of their lives, is so abhorrent to us. All deserve an opportunity to find what is more valuable to their lives than life itself.
Please explain more simply exactly what it is that you are saying.
I disagree. There are many things more important than life.
Self-sacrifice. Loyalty. Freedom. Faith. Martyrdom.
I disagree! What good is all of this if we are killing off babies.