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To: Sdgla who wrote (5044)	1/6/2017 4:46:28 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Recommended By one_less Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358591

A public policy that will educate women, and men for that matter, about the value of life doesn't exist. It seems we have come full circle. We started the colloquy with your "life is meaningless" and my response that the assertion was overly broad. Now you have people not valuing life. There may be outliers--sociopaths, psychopaths, hardened criminals--but I submit that just about everybody values life. When I mentioned public policy, I did not have in mind education, ...but since you brought it up, the government indirectly educates us through its legal taxonomy of killings. We have manslaughter, homicide, suicide, euthanasia, wrongful death, self-defense, capital punishment, etc., etc. We have near consensus on those notions although there are differences of opinion at the margin. Some might think killing in self-defense is wrong; other might consider suicide OK. But all those people value life, maybe not in the exact same way. That someone may consider capital punishment OK doesn't mean he doesn't value life. I would think it the government's role to educate people to value life if they don't already, even were it feasible, only to make clear the laws wrt killing punish people if they break them. I think that valuing life comes as original equipment and socialization fosters its application.