From: dsmsot1996@memeware.net   
      
   As "oldernow " has quite politely invited philosophy   
   gurus here, I find it appropriate to bumble in along with my non-sense.   
      
      
      
   Many wise people smarter than I am have tried to accurately pinpoint the   
   source of the worth, this *value* of a human life, and have come up with   
   utterly absurd and ridiculous theories. Intrinsic worth? Sure,buddy. The   
   "soul"? Oh please. But I, with my abysmally inadequate knowledge, have   
   finally arrived to a conclusion and I consider myself to be inarguably   
   correct.   
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   The worth of a human life depends upon how much importance it holds in the   
   minds of those interacting with it.   
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   Now, picture somebody like Elon Musk. He may be a big shot, worshipped by   
   junior engineers as if he is the messiah of a small-town cult, the sort   
   where they kidnap random people to sacrifice. But these people do not   
   interact with the man. It is a purely parasocial show of adoration. The   
   few people he actually converses with in his daily life, political   
   bigwigs, social media celebrities,and so on, often look down upon him, and   
   consider him to be a nutcase. Compare this to some random worker in a soup   
   kitchen in the Bronx. This person talks to countless people in a day,   
   feeds them, listens to their lives and worries and is considered to be a   
   very kind and polite person. The environment of the worker has higher   
   respect and value for this unnamed worker than the environment of Elon   
   Musk, thus the worker's life has a higher worth.   
      
      
      
   This draws paralells with our economical and financial system. An asset   
   has a higher worth when people consider it to have a higher worth, hence   
   why people covet naturally-formed, impurity-rich lattices of carbon, over   
   the pure lab-grown kind. You are all free to come and argue or even debate   
   with me on this.   
      
      
      
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   - dsmsot1996,   
     dsmsot1996@memeware.net   
      
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