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What does one life matter?
One life only matters if it accomplishes something that lasts, anything else is pointless in the grand scheme.

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What does one life matter?

It doesn't. Since we can't all agree on any objective value for it, nor could we agree on a definition of it, it all goes down to how much each individual cares.

What does one life matter......

It's subjective to context of both situation and person. Someone who gives it willingly matters to more people than who will ever know he existed, or that he would know would exist to care. Someone who has it taken forcibly matters only in what his death has accomplished. Someone who does nothing with it matters only to those who he cares to make matter, and by the actions he takes.

What does it mean? What matters in a life is what is succeeded by it. All life has value, but not all achieve that value on their own merit or by design. And these situations can happen independently or con-currently of each other. A willingly given life lets others keep theirs, or helps to improve another, as you see in parenting, donations, charity, so forth. A life taken forcibly, leads to the exchange of their assets, the removal of a criminal too dangerous to live his life his own way or the capture of the one who took it if possible. A life that means nothing will still mean change, their actions affecting the world in minor ways day by day but with major events across the whole. Simply by having friends you pledge hardship or assistance to their lives, by working you provide a service good or bad, by spending money you help another business live for a few minutes longer. And you inflict your own emotions onto another person or take those of others into yourself, and the value comes from the change you create from it.

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what does one life matter? well life is about connections. every person you have met and will meet will have a connection to you. People those people meet could also get a connection to you through that person. (for example say you like a movie so you show a friend. That friend likes it so much they show it to a friend. This can go on and on and is just one small connection.) Take one life away and all the connections attached to it and you could easily change manyother peoples lives. A great web of connections can fall with just one junction missing. So a single life is vastly important as without that life history itself could change.

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What does one life matter? Well, in any case, it means the world to the being it was granted to (quite literally).

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In most cases, one life matters less than it should. It's usually sad on some level when someone dies (especially before his/her "time" or whatever), but if we got all worked up over death, there'd be nothing else. Reserving such reactions to the people we're closest to is probably the best case scenario.

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Christ, for a giveaway that's been around so long, I sure haven't seen it XD Thanks for the chance ISC, and count me in!

Probably a stereotypical answer, but one life can matter a lot or little, depending on the person it's affecting. For instance, you might have never met your aunt, so her contributions to your life are mostly indirect, but a celebrity on TV might convince you to act or think a certain way, so even though they don't know you, they're more influential than your aunt! So, I guess one life can matter a lot or a little, not at all or immensely, depending on the person it's affecting.

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---Let me preface by stating I have not read any of the responses in this thread. My response to "What does one life matter?" is my own.
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One life, it seems to many people, is not a difference maker. It's not something worth taking note of. However, it IS. Just because media and art have desensitized us to the value of life, does not mean even one life is less important than another.

What does one life matter? Depending on whose life it is, throughout that life, especially in this information age, that particular life can have a trickle effect, a ripple effect, affecting potentially millions of people over the course of that one life.

The flip side of this is one life matters in bad situations, as well. One shooter in a terror attack has a ripple effect and in some cases causes laws to change or governments to become more dictatorial.

What does one life matter? For all the people that one life touches, it matters infinitely.

I'll enter, I'm feeling good and gloomy for your question too.

I would posit that a life has meaning only within a small geographical radius. Within our home, to our family, pets, maybe a few close friends, that life matters greatly. As we move outwards, twenty, thirty kilometers or so, that life matters less - the impact smaller, the importance to the world is less... maybe coworkers, acquaintances, tiny blips in an outward constellation of contacts that gets thinner and thinner as you move outwards until eventually that life has no impact, will pass without note... and has no meaning at all.

Only in bulk do we have impact beyond that tiny radius.

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Subjectively, one life can mean the world and more, both to itself and to those others who care about that particular life; but looking a bit more broadly, here's an interesting thing to think about --

When people place value on something, that value tends to be influenced by one major factor: scarcity. If a useful resource such as food, metals, living space, currency, etc. is harder to come by, people will value it more and it will be harder to obtain. The corollary of this is that if there is a surplus of a given thing that people want or need, it will tend to be valued less.

One might wonder, then, what the consequences of an ever-increasing number of those "one lives" can do to the overall tendency to value life -- will each "one life" look around at all the others, and still see them as just as valuable as they would if there were only a few? Or will devaluation inevitably follow? Will more "one lives" matter less the more there are of them?

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