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Not sure what I think of the idea that human lives are objectively valuable. Value is never objective. You can't measure it in a laboratory. To say that X is valuable is to say that X is valuable to somebody. 1/5 https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/jan/19/less-valuable-experts-unconvinced-by-lord-sumptions-lockdown-ethics
So when I say that every human life is equally and immeasurably valuable, I mean every human life is equally and immeasurably valuable to somebody - a subject - namely, God. 2/5
If you've grown up in a society shaped by Christian values (as most of us have), and if you are basically quite happy about that (as most of us are), but if you aren't too keen on God interfering with your life (as most of us aren't), 3/5
then the only way of sustaining that is by saying that we have an "intuitive" sense that human life is objectively valuable, but that "we should not try to analyse the rationality of such feelings". 4/5
Of course not: without God, those feelings have no rational basis. We have those "intuitive values" only because we've been raised within a culture shaped by Christianity. See "Dominion" by @holland_tom. 5/5
