Class Continuation

Eleanor Fulghum

Based on the discussion held in class today, I personally developed my own opinion on both the matter of putting a cost on a human life and the example in which Christians were killed for entertainment. To begin with, the case that focused itself on placing a price on human life seems not only unrealistic, but inhumane. The gift of life may as well be measured in such forms of happiness and an individual's willpower for success, yet within this context, a numerical value should remain nonexistent. Within society we go about placing numbers on things to grant them worth or meaning. Yet if one was to go about placing the cost of a soul, it becomes a matter of morality. The granted ability of human nature for us to produce life is one in which can never be bought, sold, or taken away. In fact, the beauty of life itself includes that life may take freeform, yet it should not ever be represented by certain statistics representing that person's "value". For a person's life to be exchanged for a superficial measure is not only criminal, but a stab at mankind himself, as nature's gift should remain priceless. During the second half of our discussion, the issue in which Christians were sacrificed for entertainment also strikes me morally astray. Although one can say that this sacrifice entertained the majority of the Roman people, the minority's weight deserves too an equal chance to be heard. Going along with my previous argument, numerical values can not be matched with human desires, meaning that no matter what statistics support the fact that the Romans enjoyed Christian persecution, humans were still following through acts representing treason to mankind. The comparison of the a majority to a minority of people shouldn't be amplified to a degree of numbers, but should more so fit the individual desires of a human being. Although such actions such as preserving the life of a Christian may dissatisfy the Romans, it is of personal willpower for people to decide their fate. The idea in which humans would think to put a cost on a life or think of it as a sacrifice is appalling, as the intentions of man should remain disconnected from these superficial statistics that we are being fooled into believing measure us as people.