Is life sacred? What is your position on the sanctity of life?
Is there a dispute between religion and morality or between religious and secular people regarding the sanctity of life and its essence?
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Who thinks there is sanctity to life? To disconnect a person who is a complete plant from machines is like picking a cucumber (human emotions aside). When Tzmiti says that the one who kills one and gives birth to one becomes like stealing a hundred-dollar bill and returning another hundred-dollar bill in return.
There is no such thing as the "sanctity of life" according to Torah and Halacha. There are all kinds of sanctities at different levels in the Torah:
The priests
High priest
The people of Israel
Eretz Israel
Jerusalem
The Temple Mount
The arks (between the hall and the altar, the help of priests, the help of Israel, the help of women)
The temple (the holy of holies, the sanctuary and the hall)
Contribution, contribution of tithes, firstfruits, second tithes
Holy of holies (burnt offerings, sin offerings, guilt offerings, offerings)
Lesser holy offerings (shaloms, firstfruits, tithes of animals, Passover, thanksgiving and a Nazirite goat)
High holy days
Yom Kippur
Sabbaths
Maybe Chol Hamoed
Tefillin, Torah scroll, mezuzah, holy books
But there is no such thing as the “sanctity of life.” This is cheap romance.
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