First off, so that we're all on the same page, let's restate that everything in this discussion is hypothetical. Because my ideas on how everything in the ME should be going and how they arere going in reality are different in many ways and I don't want to get drawn into an off topic debate.

Life has value because with it you can do many things. Enslavement degrades the value of life because it limits what you can and can't do and most would say that said limitations would be a cause to go to war for.

With that said (and keeping in mind this is hypothetical) the idea that one would risk his life in war seems reasonable.

Life has value, but there will always be struggles and because of that there will always be people dying for the sake of living. It sounds oxymoronic but any group of people strong enough to do so will overthrow their ruler if enough of their freedoms are inhibited even though revolution will undoubtedly be bloody.

If you take a human body and separate it into its constituent chemicals, its economic value doesn't add up to much.

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Theodore Lamar Heiks
BA, History/Political Science, Western State College of Colorado, 1984
MBA, Entrepreneurship/Marketing, City University of Seattle, 1993

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

- Kipling -



I have no idea why I am here; or for how long but I value the reality I find myself in. I have a love for life and a will to live it; as fully and as best I can - according to my moral code. I have no god. When I die - it's over.

It's something of a game; I try to be a Good Sport (yes, I know, I don't always succeed......need to keep training.)