Global Warming is about giving your government more regulatory powerand your eventual enslavment.

On Oct 19, 5:45*am, (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
In article ,
Chris L Peterson wrote:

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:47:04 GMT,
(John Savard) wrote:

One human life is (intrinsically) more valuable than ANY amount of money
or material things. This category, of course, includes pets, livestock,
and wild animals.

That is an opinion based on personal values. It cannot have any basis in
fact, and I'm sure a fair percentage of the population of the world
would disagree. I don't even agree that a human life has intrinsic
value; rather, it is valued by its internal world view and by the value
placed on it by others. I believe that some lives have negative value:
they harm me, or they harm many people.

It's better to say that the value of a human life is "priceless" - we
cannot put a monetary value on a human life.

In fact, the notion that animals are "things" is also a statement of
values, not fact. I don't share it. I would not offer the life of my dog
to save the life of a stranger. I place more personal value on my dog
than I do on most people.

Is that because your dog is a living creature, or is it because you
value your dog so much?

Your house is a thing, right? *A big and important thing but still a thing.
Would you offer your house to save the life of a stranger? *I believe most
people would not do that.

Different people have different values. You
certainly don't need to respect those values, but you do need to respect
the right to hold different values.
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

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Hypocritical greens have their place in this world just like all other
charlatans. What is funny is watching the Al Gores of thw world get
rich off of their pathetic ignorance.

utopia has been tried many times by such folks as the communists--
didn't work though.