The view that taking human life is always wrong. The view that taking human life is always morally objectionable. If human life is intrinsically valuable, we should, other things being equal, prefer living in a permanent coma to being dead. We don't prefer living in a permanent coma to being dead, other things being equal. Therefore, human life is not intrinsically valuable.
Life is only extrinsically valuable, valuable as a means to a life worth living.
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