Life Does it really make a difference? Yes it does, it makes all the difference in the world. We have no control over the greater issues of life and death; there is a Higher Authority who decides these things. We do have control over our own actions. And the action of taking an innocent life can never be justified, certainly not by the arrogant notion that we can place a relative value on a human life. When a society loses sight of the divine, absolute value of life, the change is at first all but imperceptible. At first it is only the weakest, most defenseless lives that are affected. Lives that have no voice -- society doesn't hear them, or even goes so far as to put words into their mouths for them. But that first step is, in many ways, the most crucial one. Unless the trend is halted and reversed, it will lead to a second step and a third, and before long, we will be deep in the barbaric woods where everything is relative, where the right to life is entirely relative to power, wealth and physical strength. For unless life has absolute value, it ultimately has no value.Life Does it really make a difference? Yes it does, it makes all the difference in the world. We have no control over the greater issues of life and death; there is a Higher Authority who decides these things. We do have control over our own actions. And the action of taking an innocent life can never be justified, certainly not by the arrogant notion that we can place a relative value on a human life. When a society loses sight of the divine, absolute value of life, the change is at first all but imperceptible. At first it is only the weakest, most defenseless lives that are affected. Lives that have no voice -- society doesn't hear them, or even goes so far as to put words into their mouths for them. But that first step is, in many ways, the most crucial one. Unless the trend is halted and reversed, it will lead to a second step and a third, and before long, we will be deep in the...