Values

Rabbi, do you see the right to life as a kind of extension or derivative of autonomy? Others have no right to kill me because I am the sovereign in my own “territory” – my life.

If he has no family and friends to mourn him, and it is clear to me that the pleasure in his life does not outweigh the suffering, it is better for me to kill him!

I see value in preventing suffering, not preventing pleasure.

You are only alive because, fortunately, the people around you don't think like you.

There is a distinction between the value of life itself and the prohibition of taking it. For example, one shekel has no value to a billionaire, but the prohibition of stealing it is no different from the prohibition of stealing a shekel from a poor person. This is because the prohibition of theft is on the basis of the evil of the act, regardless of the value of the money (and therefore stealing less than a penny is also forbidden, even though there is no obligation to return it). The prohibition of murder is also on the basis of the evil of taking a human life, similar to theft, regardless of the value of the life itself in one case or another.

Incidentally, the assumption that the value of human lives depends on the degree of pleasure they produce is based on a secular view. The Torah view holds that their value depends on the application of a person's role in the world (the role of the one who is more hidden than the one who is visible).