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The preservation of human life is the highest value, a pillar of ethics and the foundation of all morality. This was the case in most cultures and societies throughout history.

At first glance, the last sentence sounds patently incorrect. We all know the collective rights, human life is regarded as essential, which has killed and tortured, that cleansed and annihilated whole populations in recurrent genocides. Admittedly, this challenge this statement?

Liberal philosophies claim that human life was considered the best value over the centuries. Authoritarian regimes are no longer deny riding importance of this value. Life is sacred and precious to be maintained and preserved. However, in totalitarian societies, may be carried forward to be included, be subject to higher goals, quantized, and therefore be used with differential severity in the following cases:

.. Quantitative 1 – when a lesser evil to prevent greater. Sacrificing the lives of the minority that is the life of more than a principle established and integrated into activities such as war and store medical supplies. All cultures accept whatever impregnated (or root) in the liberal tradition, he said. They all send soldiers to die to save as many civilians. Doctors victim lived every day to save others.

It is preferred to a quantitative assessment (the ratio between the saved and those sacrificed “), and issues of quality (” there, save their life or the conservation value of the sacrifice of the lives of others? “) And Evaluation (Nobody can predict the results of these moral dilemmas – life will be saved as a result of the victim?).

2 .. In time – when sacrificing life (voluntarily or not) in the presence of a better life for the other guarantees in the future. These future life does not need much more numerous than the lives sacrificed. A life in the future immediately acquires the connotation of youth needs protection. It is the ancient sacrifices for the benefit of the new trade in a compromise between those who already share their lives – and those who do not. This is equivalent to a savings plan bloody power consumption grows to the future.

The mirror image of time that argument belongs to the third group (see next section), the qualitative. He preferred to sacrifice a life in the present, while another life, even in the present, continue to exist in the future. Abortion is an example of this approach: the child’s life is sacrificed to ensure the future welfare of the mother. In Judaism, it is forbidden to kill a female bird. Better to kill their child. The mother has the potential of this loss of life by moving to compensate for the birth of other chicks.

3 .. Qualitative – It is a particularly malignant variant, because it aims to give ideas and visions’ subjective “scientific” objectivity. People are considered to belong to different qualitative groups (divided by race, color, sex, age, wealth, or any other parameter). The result of this taxonomy is immoral that the life of the small “mark of the population are considered less” serious “and worthy than the lives of the upper classes of mankind. The first are sacrificed to the last. The Jews in Nazi Europe, and the black slaves in America, the Aborigines of Australia are three examples of such pernicious thinking.

4 .. Use – If the victim brings a life of others or other tangible benefits. This is the thinking (and action), indicates psychopaths and sociopathic criminals, for example. For them, life is a tradable commodity and can be exchanged against inanimate goods and services. Money and drugs are exchanged for life.

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