Are Humans More Valuable Than Animals?
If you saw your dog and a stranger both drowning in the ocean, which would you save first? Your answer says, well, everything about how you see the world. Dennis Prager explains.
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Are you more valuable than a dog or a cat or, for that matter, a tree?
One of the biggest differences between Judeo-Christian values and secular values concerns this very issue: the worth of the human being. According to the Judeo-Christian value system, human beings are infinitely valuable.
On the other hand, secular humanism devalues the worth of humans. As ironic as it may sound, the God-based Judeo-Christian value system renders humans infinitely more valuable than any humanistic value system.
The reason is simple: if there is no God, human beings are only material beings – and therefore not worth anything beyond the matter of which they are composed. But in the Judeo-Christian system human beings are created in “the image of God,” meaning that human life is sacred. In other words, we are either created in the image of carbon atoms – and therefore not worth much more than carbon – or we are created in the image of God and therefore infinitely valuable.
Our secular, post-Judeo-Christian society has rendered human beings less significant than at any time in Western history.
First, the secular denial that human beings are created in God’s image has led to humans increasingly being equated with animals. That’s why over the course of 30 years of asking high school and college students if they would first try to save their dog or a stranger, two-thirds have always voted against the person. They either don’t know what they would do or they actually vote for the dog. Many adults now vote similarly.
Why? There are two reasons. One is that with the denial of the authority of higher values such as religious teachings, people increasingly make moral decisions on the basis of how they feel. And since just about everybody feels more for their dog than for a stranger, many people simply choose the dog.
The other reason is that, once you get rid of Judeo-Christian values, there is no reason for elevating human worth over that of an animal.
That’s why people estranged from Judeo-Christian values (including many Jews and Christians) support programs such as “Holocaust on Your Plate.” “Holocaust on Your Plate” is a campaign developed by the animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that teaches that there is no difference between the barbecuing of chickens in America and the burning of Jews in the Holocaust. Why? Because a human and a chicken are of equal worth.
So, too, in a notorious Tucson, Arizona case, a woman screamed to firefighters that her three “babies” were in the burning house. Thinking that the woman’s children were trapped inside, the firefighters risked their lives to save the woman’s three cats.
If you think these two examples are either just theoretical (the dog-stranger question) or extreme (the Tucson mother of cats), here’s an issue that is neither theoretical nor extreme: More and more people believe, as PETA does, that even if it would lead to a cure for cancer or AIDS, it would be wrong to experiment on animals. In fact, many animal rights advocates believe that even to save a human life, it would be wrong to kill a pig to obtain a heart valve.
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Animal can be replaced human being can not be replaced.
God said in the bible that a single human is more valuable than all the sparrow in the air.
Imagine getting mad because instead of saving 3 humans you saved 3 cats that also probably felt pain,didn’t want to die and even tho rudimentary,they still had emotions
Other animals are worth more than humans, because 1. all wildlife has a purpose in the world 2. they are literally the reason any life is alive. But what about humans? They only destroy, kill and overpopulate. And if humans didnt exist there would be no impact on earth at all. It would actually be better
Certainly an interesting argument. I just spent the last hour trying to convince Google Bard that most people value human lives more than animal lives. It sort of agreed with me, and sort of didn't, and in the end we decided to call the debate a draw, because the issues can become very complex.
For instance, putting a spin on the debate, would you save your dog or the person, if you knew the person was a criminal of some sort? Would it depend on the crime? As people, we have a strong love of things we're close to, like our dogs, and a strong dislike of people we feel have wronged us or society.
I don't think it's commonplace among secular people to believe animals are of equal value to humans. I think most reasonable and rational people value human lives above animal lives. In fact, a common tactic of genocidal or political killings in regimes is to compare the target demographic to animals. They will often say they are less human, or a type of less valuable, intelligent humans, more like the wild animals. Devaluing people by saying animals are as good as them is not really an argument I've ever heard, honestly. Although I can say with certainty that tactic has never been used, the tactic of dehumanizing people to make it easier for the mob mentality to kill is almost always used, while anthropomorphizing animals to elevate them above humans proves too difficult culturally or intellectually.
I think PragerU is not wrong though pointing out that a person must be very careful when adopting secular belief systems, because they CAN be based on something other than the principles of honor, ethics, and justice. A favorite basis of secular beliefs that CAN become dangerous is a basis of belief ONLY in science. This is where you hear the dehumanization arguments occurring. In World War 2 Germany, Julius Streicher published the newspaper Der Stürmer, which depicted Jews as caricatures of rats or other vermin.
I'm actually trying to prove via a sociology algorithm that divorcing conventional laws that uphold civil rights from science in the name of advancing society, particularly when it comes to our most fundamental civil rights like freedom from unjust injury or death, is actually worse for evolution than merely maintaining a society that upholds civil rights.
Wokes hates humans just like satan did, that's why they cums to the abortion laws.
Tell me you never owned a pet without telling me you’ve never owned a pet
Yeah of course
There’s no objective justification for any value system.
A system that places an emphasis on the value of humans over anything else may have maximized its utility function when evaluated over the set of all humans. But introduce more non-human entities to that set and expand the utility function to possibly return negative values for these entities and the claim of objectivity falls out of the window rather quickly.
What may be good for you, can be the ruin of something else.
And looking at humans, including humanity before the secular value patch, I can’t help but think this is true. It’s too often true that what’s good for humanity is bad for something else. Be it something abstract like the climate or animals.
And I would definitely account for how more recent streams of philosophy have shaped human perception. I specifically think of people like Nietzsche or Sartre.
Actually the floor is more valuable then us. The last thing that was said in this video gave me that idea.
I believe people worship there animals
Matt. 10 says that we are worth more than many sparrows. I get that this passage is talking about something else entirely, but–at the same time–a comparison is being shown to be fact here. Gen. 1:28 also makes it clear that people are of more value, as well! I do not get how people treat animals like people or family members, but could not(and would not even if they could afford it) provide room, board, and/or transportation for every person they see(or hear about) that needs it. The logic is completely missing there–if we are valued as many sparrows. If you cannot(or would not) do the latter, then the first thing seems off limits to you! And, you should not be donating to animal causes without almost breaking the bank towards humanitarian efforts! The hypocrisy there seems to be immeasurable and it's wildly practiced across the planet. In my opinion, it's about perspective and that perspective is almost robotic, animal servitude! Notice, I said servitude, but I did not mean abuese!
Nope, a poodle is worth more than me. Someone will kidnap a poodle, but not me. Because I am worth less than a French Poodle. Besides, you'd feed a starving poodle, but not me.
I would do the world a lot of good save a dog that is going to die anyway over Dennis Prager!! This video is such crap.. And the Nazis and Communists regimes used a religious system of power (a lot like the one that Dennis wants in power in the U.S.) to get control and kill all of the people they did.
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Anyone who opposes raising taxes to pay for Universal Healthcare, which will save lives, doesn't have the moral grounding to complain about people preferring to save their dogs over strangers.
human is more valuble because he is smarter than other species we are rare in the universe so every human beings is to important because we might be the only smart species in the world
It depends, I have never cried at funerals, but I have cried when my pets have died. Does that me I don't care about people?
The fact of the matter is humans are animals, and are therefore no more important or of any more value than any other animal. I’m not saying it’s wrong to eat animals that are not human or that an animals should be saved instead of humans. But it is important for the sake of the planet not to retain a superiority complex. Humans have complete control over the future of the planet, if we refuse to respect its non-human animals than we will destroy it not just for all those animals but also for ourselves.
didn't christians own slaves during the biblical times? And never was there a command from god stating Thou shall not own a slave
didn't the christians slaughter thousands of innocent people during the crusades?
I would save a drowning bumble bee over Prager U
humans are animals. this guy is a clown