First of all, a compliment to the OP. It's not often I have to think hard about a question before I answer it.
The answer I came up with is that value is contextual. It's not intrinsic. It's value "to" something or someone else. Because of this, I'm going to find myself agreeing with virtually everyone who has responded to this. As dom180 and MissSorel say, we're all born with an equal chance of being valuable. Even if we commit evil, we still have the chance to be of value and it's the same chance as anyone else. As howaminotmyself says, leaving no trace is very valuable to the world ecologically. As various others say, doing good, being kind, being entertaining, making a difference implies value. But even a model good looks are valuable in the context of them being a model.
So I guess it's not that people have an individual value. It's more a matrix of values between the person and the valuer.
How do you judge a persons value?
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First of all, a compliment to the OP. It's not often I have to think hard about a question before I answer it.
The answer I came up with is that value is contextual. It's not intrinsic. It's value "to" something or someone else. Because of this, I'm going to find myself agreeing with virtually everyone who has responded to this. As dom180 and MissSorel say, we're all born with an equal chance of being valuable. Even if we commit evil, we still have the chance to be of value and it's the same chance as anyone else. As howaminotmyself says, leaving no trace is very valuable to the world ecologically. As various others say, doing good, being kind, being entertaining, making a difference implies value. But even a model good looks are valuable in the context of them being a model.
So I guess it's not that people have an individual value. It's more a matrix of values between the person and the valuer.