The one true belief

All people are not created equally, but all people have equal value. The things that make us value one life over another are all material. Material things mean nothing in the long run atheists and religious people agree, and what is knowledge really good for in the long run either. All lives are thus worth the same no matter how they are spent. A life is a constant. Gandhi's life was not greater in value than Hitler's, it was just put to better use. That sentence just pissed everyone off. Let me explain further, there was no way anyone could look at baby Gandhi and baby Hitler and decide which one would lead millions of people to a concept of peaceful resistance and which one would lead millions of people to believe that anyone different should be eliminated. Really, when it comes down to it, it might be possible that if we put Hitler in a different situation he could be a highly respected world leader and Gandhi in a different situation could have become the most hated oil tyrant ever, or something. What it comes down to is nature vs nurture. I am a firm believer in nurture. I can think of no values or beliefs that I was born with. Everything I believe in was learned. I have instincts and some people have natural abilities, but that really does have to do with good genes. Bird songs can sound identical among a species thinks to genes, voices sound similar, and vocal cords are arranged differently. Singing can be controlled by genes or learned. A belief in anything can not be passed through genes. I do not believe capitol punishment because my father does. To get back on topic, the point here is a individual is born and it is blank for the most part. As it grows it changes but that makes no difference its life will always have the same value as a totally different individual. Can we look at ants and decided which ones deserve to lift, does it really matter that a certain ant saved another ants life, or that this other ant ate its children. No most people will kill them all. Maybe gods just staring at an ant farm.