Ages and Morals

I hear a lot of references to children and babies who have been slaughtered or kidnapped, supposedly valuing them higher than adults.
Here on the site too, throughout this sad month, children and toddlers continue to be treated as having higher value than adults.
When everyone, including me, responds with more empathy for toddlers, it's understandable and a variety of psychological explanations can be given to the phenomenon (innocence, purity, etc.), and a discussion about the objective correctness of feelings is not appropriate here – we don't have to feel right – if someone is shown a picture of a dead terrorist and told that it's an Israeli citizen, they will have mercy…
I'm talking about times when the "value" or "price" of babies versus adults is discussed and it's clear to everyone that babies are "worth" more.
In general, I think this is absurd and dealing with the issue with the aim of reaching objective conclusions is hopeless due to its great complexity. It is easier for me to bring arguments that give higher value to adults, but arguments on the matter, of any kind, are a steep slope. After all, I can argue that the life of a wise man is worth more than that of a fool or that a person with many friends is worth more than a person alone.
(I'll just mention a few of the sides: The main unsolvable questions in my opinion are, quantity versus quality and existence versus potential. It can be said that potential is not interesting at all objectively, it's not as if there is a lack of life on the planet. On the other hand, "Come on."
A baby has more quantity of life ahead of him, but how much of his life is "life" – quality – compared to an adult who has a huge personality, countless human interactions, acquired knowledge and skills, and enormous vandalism to cut his life short… and the arguments one way or the other are endless)
But the entire moral philosophy stems from intuition, so perhaps we could say that the very intuition (which I have no doubt is not a personal or Western subject or whatever) that values ​​children makes their moral value higher?
Or is it really all just sentiments, and no one can decide what and if there are differences in their value.
What do you think?