Priceless
Life is priceless. There is no way to put a worth on a life or value one over another so why do people try? A court can rule 'compensation' for a family yet what will that bring, money? I personally find this to be an insult to our society because if all you value that person for is the monetary assets they bring to the family I don't think you should even be entitled to the money. Granted the money can help make ends meet if that person was the main source of income but I think it should be then worded as 'assistance' rather than compensation. If a little girls father is murdered will you ever be able to give them compensation for his support or the memories of teaching her how to ride a bicycle or drive a car or walking her down the aisle? You can't. So why do we try? Why do some people denote others lives as being worth less than their own because of where they live or what they believe in? It's always so sad when you see a new generation being taught this bigotry and being told to uphold feuds that no one even knows how they began. A recent quote from a Bosnian after the UN ruling that Serbia had not committed genocide I found particularly chilling "I don't know the reason for such a decision, we must respect the ruling, but I will know what to teach my children." What will those teachings develop into will the children be taught that Serbs are a bad people? Will it become ok when they die? How can people view the lives as others as just being this or that? How can we so detachedly view people as statistics and say that this crime is worse because more people died? I'm sure it hurts just as much to those who lost loved ones in each act of violence. Why are we even compelled as a people to commit acts of violence?