How do you personally assign value to someones life?

Question:i.e - on a self preservation basis: Valuing a pro-life campaigner over a sociopath.

-on a speciesist basis: Valuing Ghandi or Einstien over a mentally disable person

-on a personal emotional basis: Someone that makes you feel loved (parent/friend/partner) over someone that doesn't like you

etc..

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: i.e - on a self preservation basis: Valuing a pro-life campaigner over a sociopath.

-on a speciesist basis: Valuing Ghandi or Einstien over a mentally disable person

-on a personal emotional basis: Someone that makes you feel loved (parent/friend/partner) over someone that doesn't like you

etc..

All life is valuable because I played no part in its being and can therefor never fully understand it. One can only evaluate what one fully understands. To assign value to another is paradoxical because it harms self in the end.

Part of my tribe or a stranger.

peace and love

You must do it with gentle caution.
assigning a higher value to one means a lower to another
People are neutral essentially, so the vary only slightly.

On how much their death will affect me.

Mentally, physically(if possible), or even financially.

If someone's death doesn't directly effect me personally then there's obviously no value to them to me. To the world, maybe! But if I'm not crying then I must've not cared. Sounds selfish but its just true.

Keep in mind that this does defer slightly from your "personal emotional basis".

As an example, no matter how much the President might not like me, his death could effect me financially and thus I would cry so his life has SOME meaning to me even though I don't know him(or like him) personally.

"We should recognize every-ones life as equal to our own life."
Non-discrimination is indeed an excellent virtue!

"Peace be always with you."

Anything you assigned would only be YOUR moral value judgment.