HOW TO MEASURE OUR WORTH
HOW TO MEASURE OUR WORTH By Shelby Jean Arnold Perez I know you’re supposed to say that all human life is valuable, and I’m not disputing that. Human life, indeed all life from where I sit, is inherently valuable because life is fleeting and therefore precious. I personally feel that would only cheapen life because it suggests we are only valuable in a derivative sense. I’m not so impressed to hear that we are only valuable because Someone Else liked us and valued us. I’m not talking about the basic value of human life. I’m asking by what metric we can measure the value and contribution of a man to the world around him. And yes, I know we could broaden the question by asking about humanity in general, men and women included (as well as everything in between because it turns out humanity isn’t as binary as we formerly presumed). But right now I’m asking more about how I, as a woman, can measure my own worth to the world I live in. I was given, my worth as a man was dete...