[Debate] Value of Human Life

[Yuzan]

I'll reply to all three of you at once.

If you have a problem taking the perspective of the value of life then place it as a perspective of taking. What should an insurance company pay when someone dies in an accident? What amount of money is too much for a ransom note? How much should the government pay in medical bills before they pull the plug.

Just because something cannot be owned does not mean it is valueless or vise versa, it simply means that society has deemed it not purchasable. Even if you take a step back a few hundred years ago, humans themselves could be property, so I really can't see your argument as valid.

Alright I'll reply the best I can without bashing you, I didn't state it has no value. Just the value is priceless. Life excels more then anything else in the word. Forever changing and evolving with infinite possibilities. If you wanna get some hard number down which is impossible have a go at this.

The economic value that animal testing has.
Total profit from drugs and vaccines around the earth from day 1 to the foreseeable future.
Stem cell research and the value it has for human beings with problems from physical to mental handicaps to economic changes. ie making someone that could be classified to someone who is able to work.

And my perspective is quite clear, how much would a woman sell her embryo for? How much would a woman have to paid to give up her newborn to stem-cell research? A teen who had been pregnant and wasn't prepared to be a mother? A surrogate mother carrying the child for another family? etc etc etc. I'm talking about life that hasn't had a chance to be classified as a life, the value that a death has for over a period of time on a society.

Wucas, if you aren't prepared to explore all answers with an open mind don't post a debate. This isn't an argument this is an opinion, and it's as valid as anything else.