Dear XenopusTex:

You measure human value in terms of usefulness to society. Therefore, a child has a potential value- if he becomes a useful-to-society person then he WILL have value some day. If he become useless and harmful to society then, he will be of no value. According to your understanding, a whole lot of people are worthless: children until they prove otherwise, people who are uneducated, have jobs that are not clearly helping society… the unemployed, those living off the grid, not to mentioned the handicapped. In your mind, the great majority of people are of no value, not only the criminals.

The way you view human worth leaves you a very “lonely, bitter, tired, and jaded” man because there are only a few people like you, worthy humans, in a sea of worthless humans.

Let’s look at what makes you worthy in your own mind: your job is one, being “pretty good at what (you) do”

Whenever you put away, in prison, a person who is harmful to society, you are indeed being useful, preventing that individual from further harming others. True.

But what is the usefulness in protecting a society of mostly worthless people?

You wondered “what a ‘loving nature’ would do for (you)”-

It will take away your “lonely, bitter, tired, and jaded” life experience.

When you are as unloving, un-empathetic as you are, you are and will be a bad choice for any woman (and one with a child!), no matter how many people you put in prison and how much money you earn, and the fact that you pay taxes and follow the law.

anita