Tuesday, May 15, 2007
What is the Value of Human Life?
What Makes a Person Valuable?
The constitution Of America states that all men are created equal. This means that all people are born equal, and this is true. All men and women when they are born are equal. We are all worth the same at birth. The thing that a lot of us do not understand is you do not remain equal. Your value changes as you develop.
Some states have laws that protect children by not allowing them to work until they are age 13 (an average, each state is a little different) and from being prosecuted for crimes as an adult (again each state is different) depending on the crime. This allows every person a fair chance at becoming a valuable citizen. At age 18 a person is legally old enough to sign a contract, get married, have a full time job, and to vote. Then again insurance companies and the government will allow you to continue to claim them as a dependant until they are 21 as long as they are a full time student. So what this means is that somewhere between age 13 and 21 a person begins to develop some value, this is where we all become un-equal. Well, let us examine this a bit, shall we?
This is a hard concept to get your head around, so let us try to reason together. Somewhere, somehow, people become non equal. So what is it that makes a person more valuable than another? What makes a person better than another? The short answer is contribution. To contribute to the betterment of your own well being, and those around you. For you to produce value, by contributing to the production of goods and services; to add value to something, by your labor and skill. By using your time and abilities to create or add to things of value. This is what makes a person valuable, is by being a value producer.
So how can we measure our value? The most common method today is by money. Not how much you currently have but by your lifestyle. Do you have a home, a car, furniture, toys? These things were purchased with money. These things reflect your worth. You had to produce value to earn these things. Most were not given to you, you had to earn them. The important thing is that they are yours. You worked to earn the money to purchase these things. Other people worked to manufacture these things, and even others worked to transport and market these things. Each person in turn creating value, making a contribution, and receiving payment for their efforts. The more contribution you make the more your value. Some contributions are worth more than others too. Contributing as a doctor pays more than contributing as a greeter, but both are valuable as they contribute.
So then what is the measure of success? The answer is happiness. When you are a value producer you have an identity, you are someone. People know you as the mail lady, the bicycle repairman, the bug person, the firefighter, and so on. As a value producer you are known by other people by what you do. What you do brings prosperity in to your life. You get and have things, like stoves, refrigerators, clothes, furniture, your entertainment stuff like radio and television and games. People respect you for being a person of value. When you are producing and adding value to the world you gain an inner sense of fulfillment and this in turn makes you happy.
When you first start out in this game of life you have nothing. You are totally dependant on your parents to support and take care of you. As you grow you learn skills like walking and talking. At a certain age you begin to be responsible for your own self. When you were younger you were known a bit by your parent’s identity, people would say you were the son or daughter of so and so. If your parents were value producers then that was good for you.
What hurts is to see a youth throw it all away. I know this is a little off topic, but I had to add it in here. A lesson not earned is a lesson not learned. To give the 16 year old a new car is not a gift, it is a sentence. Most of them will abuse the car, wreck it or get into trouble with it. They will not appreciate the effort you put forth to earn the money to buy the car, they just waste it. Remember; a lesson not earned is a lesson not learned.
Ok back on the subject. Your identity in a large part depends on what you do. What do you produce? If you produce value, contribute to the betterment of your self and all those around you then you will be liked and appreciated. If you do not then you will be looked down on, considered less than others.
It would be far too easy to just list what things people do to be worth less than others. What you need to understand is what to do to be worth something. To be worth something you must contribute, you must produce value, you must be somebody.
You can be and do anything you desire, the key here is you have to do it. This is often seen as work. Work requires effort, effort requires motivation, and motivation requires a dream.
Follow your dream, become a person of value, and live a happy life.
Be Blessed
How to Have Anything You Want
All About Manifesting
The constitution Of America states that all men are created equal. This means that all people are born equal, and this is true. All men and women when they are born are equal. We are all worth the same at birth. The thing that a lot of us do not understand is you do not remain equal. Your value changes as you develop.
Some states have laws that protect children by not allowing them to work until they are age 13 (an average, each state is a little different) and from being prosecuted for crimes as an adult (again each state is different) depending on the crime. This allows every person a fair chance at becoming a valuable citizen. At age 18 a person is legally old enough to sign a contract, get married, have a full time job, and to vote. Then again insurance companies and the government will allow you to continue to claim them as a dependant until they are 21 as long as they are a full time student. So what this means is that somewhere between age 13 and 21 a person begins to develop some value, this is where we all become un-equal. Well, let us examine this a bit, shall we?
This is a hard concept to get your head around, so let us try to reason together. Somewhere, somehow, people become non equal. So what is it that makes a person more valuable than another? What makes a person better than another? The short answer is contribution. To contribute to the betterment of your own well being, and those around you. For you to produce value, by contributing to the production of goods and services; to add value to something, by your labor and skill. By using your time and abilities to create or add to things of value. This is what makes a person valuable, is by being a value producer.
So how can we measure our value? The most common method today is by money. Not how much you currently have but by your lifestyle. Do you have a home, a car, furniture, toys? These things were purchased with money. These things reflect your worth. You had to produce value to earn these things. Most were not given to you, you had to earn them. The important thing is that they are yours. You worked to earn the money to purchase these things. Other people worked to manufacture these things, and even others worked to transport and market these things. Each person in turn creating value, making a contribution, and receiving payment for their efforts. The more contribution you make the more your value. Some contributions are worth more than others too. Contributing as a doctor pays more than contributing as a greeter, but both are valuable as they contribute.
So then what is the measure of success? The answer is happiness. When you are a value producer you have an identity, you are someone. People know you as the mail lady, the bicycle repairman, the bug person, the firefighter, and so on. As a value producer you are known by other people by what you do. What you do brings prosperity in to your life. You get and have things, like stoves, refrigerators, clothes, furniture, your entertainment stuff like radio and television and games. People respect you for being a person of value. When you are producing and adding value to the world you gain an inner sense of fulfillment and this in turn makes you happy.
When you first start out in this game of life you have nothing. You are totally dependant on your parents to support and take care of you. As you grow you learn skills like walking and talking. At a certain age you begin to be responsible for your own self. When you were younger you were known a bit by your parent’s identity, people would say you were the son or daughter of so and so. If your parents were value producers then that was good for you.
What hurts is to see a youth throw it all away. I know this is a little off topic, but I had to add it in here. A lesson not earned is a lesson not learned. To give the 16 year old a new car is not a gift, it is a sentence. Most of them will abuse the car, wreck it or get into trouble with it. They will not appreciate the effort you put forth to earn the money to buy the car, they just waste it. Remember; a lesson not earned is a lesson not learned.
Ok back on the subject. Your identity in a large part depends on what you do. What do you produce? If you produce value, contribute to the betterment of your self and all those around you then you will be liked and appreciated. If you do not then you will be looked down on, considered less than others.
It would be far too easy to just list what things people do to be worth less than others. What you need to understand is what to do to be worth something. To be worth something you must contribute, you must produce value, you must be somebody.
You can be and do anything you desire, the key here is you have to do it. This is often seen as work. Work requires effort, effort requires motivation, and motivation requires a dream.
Follow your dream, become a person of value, and live a happy life.
Be Blessed
How to Have Anything You Want
All About Manifesting
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