Devaluation of human life?

Why has the value placed on human life gone down so low?

Few years ago, the level of public outrage and angst at the loss of life, a single life, was so high that people took notice and politicians are forced to take meaningful action to preempt recurrence. Nowadays we read about hundreds of lives lost and we turn to the next page. What has happened to the value of human life? Any human life; regardless of the continent, country, race, rich or poor. How have we become so callous?

In the name of getting what we say we want, we see children being separated from parents at borders (recently treated as a means to a justifiable end in America), we see needless wars and the resulting displacement of thousands (and we turn the page with ease), we read about famine and age-old problems faced by children in under-developed countries (problems that today’s technology can easily address; while we focus on driverless cars or low emission cars etc. – when we have the technology to go and mechanise agriculture across Africa as an example, harness the abundant solar power available there, make portable water readily available by sinking hundreds of boreholes within weeks). Humanity has lost itself and its conscience

We should not be reading about multiple stabbing in London, needless loss of tens of young lives in what is supposed to be a developed country. Talks and more talks….. decisive actions must be taken and we must stop at nothing, to up the value (and how we value) of human life!