What gives life value? · Philosophy Forum

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Re: What gives life value?

Originally posted by Regret
Is death a big deal?
Why?
Urizen's thread "test your morality" asks if Hitler's infant life is of as much value as the Holocaust victims. What is it that gives life value that would allow one the ability to properly make such a decision?
Does death really matter? Does life? Why?

I'm not sure whether you're asking what it is people perceive to give their lives value i.e. what gives life meaning, or whether you're asking what it is people perceive that makes a life [more] valuable i.e. what's a life worth.

In any event I imagine any answer given will be entirely subjective and baseless, and consequently for all intents and purposes relatively meaningless.

Lord Urizen Perfection

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Question?

Not everyone is ruled or dominated by fear. I disagree with your conclusion. Other factors such as Love, sex, desire for pleasure, need to interact, etc. motivate us to continue life.

PiruBlood Restricted

i think life is a choice. i believe people have the ability to make there lives what they want it to be.

Symmetric Chaos Fractal King

Originally posted by Lord Urizen
Not everyone is ruled or dominated by fear. I disagree with your conclusion. Other factors such as Love, sex, desire for pleasure, need to interact, etc. motivate us to continue life.

Technically all of that can be traced back to varying fears of isolation.

Thats just my opinion though.

Lord Urizen Perfection

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Technically all of that can be traced back to varying fears of isolation.
Thats just my opinion though.

My desire and particpation to have wild gay orgy sex has nothing with fear of anything. In fact, if fear was my primary motivation, i wouldn't be doing it, out of fear of STD's and such (which i might already have ,i wouldn't be surprised)

I think pleasure is what gives life value. Without pleasure and its varieties, no one will value this life.

docb77 Thinker

If we're speaking on an individual level then pleasure and pain (or fear of pain) are definitely the primary motivators, but I don't know that I'd go so far as to say that they provide value to the life - Certainly not from a societal viewpoint.

Lord Urizen Perfection

I don't mean it as superficial as it sounds, but I can't quite explain my point.

If Life were only suffering, then it would be worthless, because it would be undesirable.

Storm Black belt BJJ

I interpreted the question as: "What is a life worth?" If the situation occurs, are there factors which influence/determine whether someone lives or dies, or is all human life equal?

Lord Urizen Perfection

Originally posted by Storm
I interpreted the question as: "What is a life worth?" If the situation occurs, are there factors which influence/determine whether someone lives or dies, or is all human life equal?

It begs the question, "what is life"

Is life your actions, is life simply our conciousness, is it as simple as existance?

How do we universally gauge the worth of life, if we can't define life universally ?

AngryManatee Sexy Ham Manwich

The thing that gives life meaning: knickers

King Nothing Who knows?

Re: What gives life value?

Originally posted by Regret
What Gives Life Value

For me it's the things that bring me joy and pleasure.

Originally posted by Regret
Is death a big deal?

For some...no. Once you die, life is over. You wont know anything, you wont care about any thing, no more worries or pain. It's like eternal sleep. For those God fearing people, it's a big deal, either it's the day you become free and spend the rest of eternity in eternal bliss or you spend eternity in pain and despair.