In “United States v. Holmes” many are asked to question the value of a human life and at what right and time does someone have the power to decide who shall live and who shall die. U.S. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Benjamin Cardozo, makes a compelling statement about the sanctity of life when pointing out that no one should have the power to play God. Instead, he makes the valid point that nature is nature for a reason and should be left to take its course.
Letting one so choose to take the value of one’s life and to play God is not a rule that one would want to be allowed within society at any point in time for any reason. I firmly believe that everything happens for a reason and therefore agree with Cardozo in his statements about the Holmes case. If life is meant to be taken it will go. No human being should have the right to decide who shall die and when and where he or she shall pass. In seeking to sanctify the value of life one must keep in mind that every human life has value and therefore a sole or group of human beings should not determine one’s future.
In the end, the true question within the Holmes case came down to sacrificing the lives of all or sacrificing only a few. In my conclusion, I firmly believe that as sailors they signed up to do just that. They decided to take on life and risk of a seaman, knowing full the risks that were being involved. Therefore, their absence of the a proper number of boats for the amount of lives on board is no one else’s but their own fault. In the end we all have what comes to us, but I firmly believe that no life shall be taken before their time is to be up.
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