All life is precious, importance is a different thing.
Value is measured in many ways, most of all our own value of our life is what matters. People who understand the importance of life give everyone's life a base value as apposed to people who are indifferent that see no extra importance in the life of someone or something they don't know. The actions and talents of people we don't know personally increase their value to us. Our relations to loved ones make them more important to us than others. You can claim all life is equal but if you had to choose weather one of your loved ones died or some stranger died (and it's not some hypothetical situation you can refuse to choose, I'm saying it's a split second choice or they both die type thing) you'd pick the person who's life has less value to you to die.
The difference? Just how you treat them. A loved one you'll be happy to see, a stranger you'll be indifferent towards. It's not like just because you don't care about them then you want them to die, there's nothing wrong with admitting you don't care about people you don't know. I can understand not being able to
choose if someone should live or die because you don't want to be the one to weigh the value of their life, I can understand not being able to kill a stranger when you have that choice because even though they have less value to you, they still have base value to themselves and those they know. I even know I'm the crazy idiot who won't sit by while someone needs help (within reason I won't run myself ragged trying to help everyone) but if I'm there and I can help I will weather their life has value to me or not.
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Originally Posted by gamonthehand
Edit: also i dont beleve that wether themoney is alive is more important then if woot or I or you is alive. They are all equaly important. A persons life is important untill they make it worthless. however i agree we should focus our energy on something that is still in question. rather that a problem solved.
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What?
so someone doesn't show up for a while and you wanna act like it's some manhunt? Whats this "focus our energy" stuff? They haven't had anything to say or just haven't been around for a while, so what? Maybe they found other interests or they just got bored of this place. Sure they could have run into some kind of toruble and we'll never see them again, but how do you plan to find that out? And if you did find out where they've been and if they are dead what would you do? Would you mourn their death? A person you barely know?
I gotta say thats at least a 7 on the creepy scale that you would find the need to track down inactive members.