Latter Day Sinner

My personal calling and mission includes teaching people their worth. I believe in individual worth: that no two people are in any real sense equal. That is countercultural. Most of the people I interact with know Thomas Jefferson’s ‘self evident’ truth that all men are created equal. There is usually a lot of pushback from my friends when I disagree with that premise. They typically assert that every human life has infinite worth. I am as certain as I am of anything that this view is incorrect. The human species is a small blip in the existence of a vast and timeless cosmos. We are too tiny even as an entire group to have infinite worth. Individual parts of that group are even less so. But no one is worthless so I fight against that extreme as well. Individuals have value and dignity. People deserve to live free of force and fraud. We all need to be vigilant in protecting ourselves because it is foolish to expect every other human to play by the rules and play by them all the time. But those who can help keep other people safe should do so. That is worthy.