Cahlen, in your example of giving your lunch to a homeless person I failed to see where you are doing this supremely for one's self "in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others." Where are you hurting someone by giving them your lunch?

In all honesty Cahlen, I AM TRYING to see your point, but you're not persuading me in the slightest. If your idea for this post is to get people to understand you, you may want to find some equal ground and work from there. To say that a rock is just as important as a sentient being? Umm... okay, if you break a rock, what do you get? Lotsa rocks:) So maybe breaking rocks is how they reproduce... I mean, since energy can't be destroyed or created, and matter is just a storage container for energy.I guess we could just measure things by how much energy is in each peice of matter... or maybe not....

Yes, it's weird how I would give a persons life more value than a rock... am I crazy or am I just an automaton?