Is human life valued more now than it used to be a century or more ago? I think it is. A hundred years ago, 500 years ago, there were so many more hazards even in Europe and America that childhood mortality was high and the life expectancy wasn't so high. Children died on treks through western America; people died of cholera epidemics and malaria (and obviously still do in Africa). I feel that people back hundreds of years ago wouldn't have valued life so highly for the sole fact that they would have been so hurt by the pain of loss if they cared. What do you think?