What is the value of human life?
If there was a cosmic stock market that traded on ‘value of human life’ shares, these would probably be listed as junk bonds. But seriously, there may not be an intrinsic value to human life or any other particular life for that matter ( just watch to the Animal, Discover or History Channels and you will understand what I mean) but we humans have a great advantage: we have IMAGINATION. Reality is just too unfair: poor people die for the wars that rich people start; honest and decent fathers can’t pay for their children education while crooks send theirs to Harvard and Princeton; wealthy murderers never see jail while petty robbers and junkies get life sentences; our lives outcome depends pretty much on what environment we are born into… pure luck. The good news is that we can dream a world where life is valuable and where every human being has a divine right to individuality, diginity and respect, freedom and all the other good stuff that we all yearn for. Without this imagination an
