Journal: The Market of Human Life

That human life does not have a price is not what the creators of the "humanforsale.com" web site think. Whoever enters that site and answer an extensive quIz is able to know how much their life costs. It is estimated that there are already 5 million peolpe who have registered themselves in that web page. It may sound funny but at the same time this situation can be understood as a symptom of the weak kind of human relationships that seem to be on top in our times. It is surprising that there is people who feel that they can set the price of another human life, and what is even worst is that there is people who admit being treat like that.
The common tipe of human relationship that it is impossing nowadays, is the one in which the other person is just an object, a medium to reach a goal. And this is ocurring in all type of situaions. For example, there is people who believe that paying a salary means to own somebody's life. And in this way they feel that they have rights over that employee's time, health and even dreams...There are others who think that granting a favor to a friend is paying for that person's loyalty....And of course, this siuations exist because there's people who agreed with them and accept to be under those circumstances.
When the complex network of the human relationships is broken, sympathy, solidarity, cooperation and compasion are lost. And then, human beings are not longer joined together by a responsible and sensitive kind of link. But just for the prices that we put ourselves one to another. Our relationships have then no more affection but an economical value. And this situation makes human life itself to become a superficial fact.
Any price that a human life gets, is low. Because human life is invaluable. To give to it another sense, to connect it with things that lead us to a better world, and to remember that our lives need to be nutured by the relationship with other lives is necessary to start leaving from the human market in which we are.
When we put a price to another person, we are accepting that our own life also has a price, and this is to dehumanize us. Life don't have a price, it has value, an that's a quite different thing.