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i agree with you.I didn't posit how I felt. I retorted with a question. Subjectivity vs objectivity is the difference between a thought relative to some number of people, versus an absolute value. An absolute would be something to the effect of "all things in their composition contain atoms." We presume this to be true, beyond a reasonable doubt, because that is our scientific understanding of matter.
Saying, "life has value", is subjective because we can't know with specificity what value it has in absolute terms. You presented the statement on faith that value of life is universal, but we know that not to be true. Most of the value statements are circular because they have no provable objective statement of value. Statements of "live has value" may also take on faith that it has value because it is said that it does. Saying, for instance, my life has value because other need me fails the test because others do not apparently posses an absolute value either (in other words their existence is just as transient, and no obvious purpose is apparent). Similarly, value relative to some understanding of a god-thing is not provable. Life may in fact be meaningless and have no value, it maybe the most valuable thing, or it may only be as valuable as a person believes it to be to themselves.
It is a ponderous topic, the meaning and, or, the value of life. It is not provable that life has absolute value. If it means something to you, it is proper to say that it has some value to you, but that it may have lesser, or no, value to someone else. I don't begrudge anyone their feelings, one way or another. The OP's feeling, and those a like, are valid simply on the fact they are feeling them. Whether they are trivializing something valuable, I don't know the answer too that. It's an interesting topic though.
So, what makes life important?
i dont think life has any inherent purpose, i just live it for the hell of it. occam's razor, the simplest possible explanation is always assumed to be true. if we go by occam's razor than we can assume life has no intrinsic meaning, it just is.
we just like to think life has meaning to comfort ourselves, our need to feel important. but it doesnt help explain anything
"purpose/meaning" is a concept that only exists in the human mind anyways, ur right it cant be scientifcally proven and it definitely isnt objective
its an interesting topic but it doesnt lead anywhere, i try not to overthink it