Hence, the child with the rare cancer doesn’t get any attention.
Well, I have to disagree here. Hundreds and hundreds of people die every day. I have seen bits on the news more than a few odd times about this child or that one, their heroic recoveries, their terrible relapses, their tragic deaths and appeals to help the family through the bills they now face.
I think your attachment to the situation might cloud your objectivity.
On the other hand, it takes special circumstances to hear about inner city deaths. It takes nothing for a suburban community to be up in arms over a kidnapping. So I think there is bias here, but I don’t think it goes the way you suggest. MHO.
I’m not sure what you don’t get ** Marley23**. I disagree with you when you say, …. “If we’re to decide that human life has any value (just a hypothetical), I’d say they all have equal value.”…. The attention one gets from others at birth, during life and at the time of their death is of course not uniform and the same for all. Life isn’t fare. Attention, worth/value are derived from individual interests and perspectives and are subject to continuous change. Of course those ‘individual interests’ are socially constructed, but human lives do not have equal value in society or according to law.
I could be killed on the spot for attempting to pick up as bag of money from an armoured car. That’s how much life is worth, they are trained to kill you for a bag of change.
All individual human lives are not valued equally by all humans all the time. Some people would value the life of their pet over the life of some humans. Some would value their car, house, money and other property over the value and life of others… And some people kill themselvess…
Sorry for the highjack…but…nuh uh. Nope. Armored car drivers have weapons for self-defense. They can’t kill you for trying to walk off with stolen money, any more than the police can shoot you for it.
I do agree that human life is sometimes of surprisingly little worth.