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Ricky T asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Is the Value of a Middle Easterner Life less than that of an American?

I don't ask this to be racist (because I'm not) or cruel.

But I've learned that when you are trying to determine the value of something, you can only do that by measuring what you can get for it.

The value of a watch is 30 dollars, if you can get 30 dollars for it.

American's don't use suicide bombers, because no american is willing to trade his life to make a simple statement about religion.

Middle Easterners are willing to trade their lives simply to make a statement about their religion.

Doesn't that mean that if they are so willing to throw those lives away, then by all economic measurments, those lives must be worth significantly less?

Best explanation of why I'm right or wrong (cuz I just think it's an interesting way of looking at it) gets the 10 points.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    In the West, remains of meals are thrown away which would feed a family in some countries. This doesn't affect their value.

    Motorists are more likely to die in an accident than pedestrians. This doesn't mean that their lives have less value.

    The fact that some Middle Easterners are more willing to give their own life doesn't affect its value either. It's still a human life, and that person is still capable of doing as much with that life as anyone else (provided they don't blow themselves up).

  • 1 decade ago

    Watch the movie, "Paradise Now", and you'll understand the mind of a suicide bomber.

    A lot of these people don't have much to live for. They live in poor countries, or at least in the poorest areas of these countries, and you could fit all their possessions in the trunk of a 1960's VW Bug. Probably most of them don't even believe the cause they are fighting for, but it's a more honorable way to die than a quiet suicide in your own home. At least this way, your family gets money.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well if you want to go about it that way the human body is worth about $250,000

    Also in most religions you are supposed to hold God or Gods above all else even their own life the fact they are taking the initiative to prove their faith shows how much more loyal they are to their cause than we are

    The reason why they are doing this now is because are culture is destroying their way of life and nothing else really seems to be working. Half the people who commit this act have nothing to lose anyway.

    Also in some cultures it is considered a great honor to die for what you believe in.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    first of all, there are in common terms 3 races -- Caucasoid (White), Negroloid (African/Black), and Mongoloid (Asian). And what you're asserting isn't authentic. I even have met many Indians and midsection Easterns with blue, gray, and eco-friendly eyes. I even have additionally considered photos of East Africans from distant tribes with the main alluring eco-friendly hazel eyes you will ever see. on an identical time as that's extra trouble-free to discover Whites with pink hair and eye colorings different than brown, different races have them, too. And we are all blended besides. :D

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  • 1 decade ago

    Nope. Its like the eagle on the back of the dollar bill. Holding arrows and olive branches but facing the olive branches...meaning we can go to war or we have peace but ultimately prefer peace.

  • 1 decade ago

    Wow!

    AREN'T YOU ASHAMED TO SAY :

    "Middle Easterners are willing to trade their lives simply to make a statement about their religion."

    They're suicide bombers because they're fanatics... That has nothing to do with religion.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Because suicide bombers believe they are sacrificing and will be rewarded in the afterlife.

    In the Christian religion (which American was primarily founded upon), suicide is considered a sin and thus you will go hell for committing suicide.

  • 1 decade ago

    If your life was as miserable as theirs, it is worth less. These dumb bastards blow themselves up because they think there is something better on the other side. They do this because some rotten son-of -a biitch told them that this is the way it is. I refer to his imam. he knows this poor ignorant bastard will do whatever he tells him. This is Islams comparison to the stepford wives !

  • 1 decade ago

    Much more.

    You can part out a dead Mideastern body and sell the organs on the medical black market to Fat American Aristocrats.

  • 1 decade ago

    brainwashing and heavy poverty will make most people do just about anything for the one thing that is always there religion.therefore they are willing to die for the one thing tat was always there for them. thanks to radical islam.

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