[Ammi]

..I don’t agree that with any other example it would have made the thread any dfferent..would an ‘older’ person be less valuable than a younger person..etc etc, the list is endless and nothing intentional was meant by the example used by the OP, just something we do when we make ‘hypothetical human interest’ threads..use examples etc...I guess the frustration of the OP and understandably so is the side tracking of a use of that example used, rather than his genuine interest in views on the topic, which I imagine is useful to his subject studies....

..anyway, not wanting to side track anymore and staying with the topic and as I think I posted earlier...my first instinct would be to say that we are all equally as ‘valuable’..but of course we are not..some not only have very little value to this planet but actually remove value from it in the case of murderers etc...and even people who are extremely valuable in just general things they do to care/have empathy for people in their lives...I guess we would call them the ‘average person’...in a culling of the population situation or an extreme situation when it might have to be decided..they could find their value very much diminished...because that is when ‘practical/logical’ would have to overrule ‘civilised’....and all empathy/compassion..’human’ feelings would have to be put aside...pr made secondary...actually, slightly off topic again, I always find that interesting in apocalyptic or plane crash survival movies...how the dynamics/priorities of everything changes and people within the group..(especially as I'm a recent fan to The Walking Dead series..)...interesting topic, Redway...