The value of a life
We are not discovering anything new if we stop to think for a moment about the critical contradiction in which the world continues to live when it comes to valuing a human life. During the history of humanity, substantial progress has been made in respecting human life in almost all parts of the world. However, it has not been possible to eradicate struggles, confrontations and wars with the intensity that one would like to justify, where thousands of human beings lose their lives, the most valuable asset and the one that should be the most sacred and respected.
Fortunately, we have at our disposal the wise works of eminent experts in various fields where the value of a human life is reasoned with total clarity and convincing arguments. From ethics, principles, values; from the deepest and most valuable part of a person should emanate the best feeling towards one's neighbour with the firm will to preserve good and life in the face of evil, violence, greed, envy and everything that drives one to kill.
Unfortunately, centuries of history have recorded too many wars for all kinds of evil ambitions or for the struggle for human rights and other good causes provoked by dictatorial and totalitarian attitudes. There are many other events to take into account in a world that has survived with permanent contradictions and where good has prevailed over evil, as we strive to convince ourselves every day, for example, with the cinema or with the news in the media in a scheme of conscious manipulation.
Today, we live with the profound contradiction of devoting all possible resources and efforts to save a human life trapped in the rubble of the thousands of buildings collapsed in Turkey and Syria by the latest earthquakes. We celebrate with great jubilation the rescue of a baby with days to live after more than 140 hours trapped, an example of the strength of human nature, and a minute after the news we assume without blinking the death of human beings in Ukraine by the bombings of the Russian invader or in another place at war. Weapons are sent from many countries so that Ukraine can defend itself by killing young Russian soldiers sent by Putin and, at the same time, rescue teams arrive from these same countries to Turkey, with no access problems. This is not the case in Syria, where dictatorship and war condition everything and life in the places affected by the earthquake is worthless for the government because most of them are opponents of the regime. The world is still in turmoil and we survive in a sea of contradictions about the value of a life.