The value of a person

[sobrique]

If one starts from the assumption that in life there are people who are scum, and there are people who are saints.

The question is though, how do you measure a person?

Is it by their children?
By their impact on others?
By their wisdom and insight?
By their adherance to a moral code?

And another question:
[Poll #299286]

Comments

[karen2205]

It's nowhere near this black and white.

eg. if the debate involved a technical scientific point and one argument came from someone with relevant experience and another from an environmental campaigner with a political agenda, I'd take all that information into consideration when determining what I thought about the issue.

Where there isn't that degree of technical ability required, I rate arguments on their merits, but I take into account what I know about the person behind the opinion when assessing the relative merits of the arguments.

And you, my love, need a lesson in apostrophe use.

It's is a contraction of 'it is', and is never used when you mean 'belonging to it', where the correct usage is 'its'.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

I do?
I thought I had that one pegged.
Ah well. (Goes and flicks through recent posts to find 'em)

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Hmm, "s/it's own miracle/its own miracle/g"

Unless you mean the poll, which sadly I can't edit :)