victor809 wrote:And you believe this without any reason to.
superiority does make us more valuable (to our own society).
We have no intrinsic value. As a being we are a slab of meat operating with electrical impulses. Our value is ONLY based on the value society attributes to us, which is something that can be taken away just as quickly (for example, death penalty. Society has determined that the individual no longer has a net positive value).
As for your "feel it" stuff... you do realize that our brains play tricks on us all the time. I doubt you would "feel" anything if you didn't know something happened there. In fact, I'm sure there are plenty of locations people live, eat, screw etc which were sites of slaughters, but were forgotten in history.
You can't logic your way out of this one.
If superiority makes us more valuable, then a high tech robot has more value than a human life. And third world humans would have almost no value.
Sure, we place ridiculous "value" on the rich and famous and the beautiful royalty of the world. But at the end of the day we're not killing our welfare recipients to provide new organs for the Obamas.
And for the record, my first visit to Oklahoma City was almost creepy. It was about a year after the event and I was talking with my sales rep who was driving, when I suddenly stopped him and asked if we were near the site of the bombing. Up to that point I wasn't thinking about the bombing, nor did I even register that we had entered the city proper. We were simply discussing business.
When he told me it was the next block away, it was a little scary,
Kinda like when Obi Wan felt Alderan being blown up by the death star.
Jokes aside, you don't need religion or even faith to know that human lives are valuable for a reason beyond intellectual superiority.
