Value+of+a+Life

The value of life, to be perfectly honest, is only in affect for people that you are concerned for. A life that I am unaware of, that does not have any relation to be, does not concern me. The value of life is an important thing, but who would pass up a great sum of money, to spare a life that means nothing to one's self?

In class we talked about the value of one's life. We created a hypothetical scenario in which the devil came into our class and told us that he would give us $1,000,000. The catch is that at the flick of his finger someone on the other side of the world will die. You won't know how, when, or who, but someone will die. They might be the person who is about to cure cancer, or the serial killer who is the reason why people are afraid to leave their homes, or anything else in between. If you say yes, he'll leave, you'll never see him again, and you'll never hear about the results of your answer. If you say no, that's it, you don't get anything, as if he was never there in the first place. The choice is yours.

We also talked about someone offering you, a poor person living with your age-wealthy grandmother in the middle of the forest, a great sum of money if you would reveal the location of a rare bird, or any kind of animal. The person, however, reveals that he wants to shoot and kill the bird so he can stuff it and put it in his house. You don't know if he will or won't do that. Would you risk the life of a rare bird for a great sum of money?

Life is a valuable and important thing and can be taken away at any given second. Two choices, an unthinkable amount of money given to you in cash, no questions asked in trade for someone else's life. This life you are giving up, you know nothing about the person or their whereabouts. Personally for any sum of money I would definitely not take someone's life away from them. Just because you do not know this person and their whereabouts doesn't mean you aren't going to be taking this person away from his or her family and friends that care about them. It is ridiculously wrong to kill anything or anybody for money and because greed is a big issue occurring a lot today. People do not think about the consequences and do whatever it takes to be wealthy. Whatever goes around comes around so don't make the wrong decision for something that doesn't even come close to meaning what you're giving in to.