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Life, value, and absolutes

For a seventeen year-old, Chase has an incredible grasp on the meaning of things that eludes most adults:

[…] human life is not absolute. The physical forces acting upon us at any given time can be manipulated with mass or velocity. Everything around us can be changed in some way. Without an absolute “invisible cloud being”, how exactly, since biotic and abiotic nature is certainly not absolute, do you know that “lying, stealing, murdering” etc is wrong? How do you know that inflicting those consequences upon other people is not fine and dandy? In order for you to care about human life, it has to have value. Outside of God, how can human life, your fellow man, have any sort of intrinsic worth, if we are simply inserted into creation without design? Value is created by some sort of labor, some sort of work towards that. If there is no higher authority to give that life worth, then we must earn it for ourselves. Given this logic, we must not consider life from conception to graduation valuable. If your only reason for not “lying, stealing, and murdering” is legal consequences and the threat of death, then you obviously have no moral values to begin with.