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anonymous | 1 year, 1 month ago
The myth of Some lives are more important than others
There is a type of ranking that exists where attributes such as country of birth, language,  skin color and place of education all contribute to your rank in society. This rank derives  directly from your earning potential and can literally be traced back to an hourly rate,  a young professional’s time is perceived as more valuable than that of a low income  cleaner. From this we get to a point where a starving child in India has a lower worldwide ranking  than that of a well fed American child.
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Life has a price   marcio
A very basic and universal moral principle that every human is as important as any other. And  there are very few very few basic and universal moral principles.

Now, is it true that every  person has the same economic value to society? That is a very complex (and dangerous) question,  but the answer is probably not. It is a very dangerous line to cross when we equate economic  value with "importance".

I was reading an article the other day about how the British Health  System (which provides universal health care) deals with placing a value on human life.  How much to pay for treatment to the life a person? Is it worthy to spend millions to extend  someone's life for 2 months? Given that there are always limited budgets, how to choose which  lives to save? The system pay to save one of the eyes of the patient. Should the system spend  the money to save the second eye or should it direct the resources to save another patient?
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Thanks God I come from a family culture that everybody is the same independent of what they  do, how much you do,or how you look. I love big tables for everybody to sit and share their stories  (or their real value:) the children, cleaner, CEO, mother, grandmother, etc; it is very  surprising all you learn from one another. Life is much easier....!
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I'm a short guy, 5'7'' (1.70m) and I aslways thought that women like tall man. There was nothing for me to do about it, I could not stretch myself so I just live with this myth. I'm freeing myself from it.
I think it is easier for you to get rid of this myth if you're short than if you're tall, because being tall you really need the myth to impress women.
Global poverty and hunger are increasing each year instead of decreasing. The agricultural land of the earth is owned by fewer and fewer people. Much of what is left in the hands of small farmers is being bought up by international businesses - multinational corporations distant from land but close to big money.

Admittedly, the problems of the world are a function to increasing population and decreasing resources, but we must see that the global expansion of large aggregations of capital is also a factor. This is allowed by a modern thinking that gives permission to international anarchy, that does not demand justice and human rights in the allocation of land and does not demand ecological practices in the use of agricultural resources.
There's a widespread idea that the size of the male genitals is important for the pleasure of the female. Men that were not well gifted by nature would have low self esteem and be inclined to compensate:

1) by being aggressive drivers and owning big and flashy vehicles.
2) getting into body building/ big muscles to feel 'intimidating'.
3) seeking recognition through politics/power.
5) by hunting and by the ownership of guns.
Why do so many of us would like to extend our youth for all our lives? Isn't that a refusal to take responsibility for our lives, pretending we are grown ups but acting out as teenagers?
Would you like to be like Peter Pan in Neverland? If we choose to remain all in our teens who's going to provide for our needs?
Don't you know someone that looks like the child of her/his partner?