I believe that all people have value because all people are children of God. And I believe that all living things are creatures of God. And I think it does me good to be humble enough to remind myself as such as often as possible.

Now, that doesn't mean that a person loses all of his value if he kills people or creatures in his own self interest, as humans do to eat food and to fight wars.

It just means that I believe that all beings have worth that is external to their economic worth and that that very worth is not something that any other human gets to put a price on or measure.

In my personal life, people are ranked. Given enough effort, I could even assign a numerical value to what people are worth to me. (Not a monetary value, but a numerical one, where I rank people in order, though I'd struggle to order my own children. Call it a tie?)

But I also see such an ordered numbering as a futile exercise because what does my opinion count for? Not much. If someone has no value to me, it doesn't mean that person has no value to anyone or no value to the universe or God.

And also, a person's value cannot be summed by how many other people value that person. Meaning, I don't think you can say that the parent of five children has more value than the parent of three children than the non-parent. I don't think popularity or close friends is a measure of someone's worth.

There are certainly people on this planet whom I think we'd all be better off if they were gone. But even then, my lack of ability to see the entire situation makes my opinion worthless. Even violent dictators sometimes serve some useful purpose, such as quashing unrest and preventing all-out civil war.

Whether or not people have value isn't something I think about often because I assume that they do, whether or not that value is immediately visible to me.

More succinctly, in my belief system, all people are children of God. But they're not my children. I don't have to love everyone. I don't have to see everyone's value. I can even wish others dead or ill, to no consequence other than my own time wasted on ill feelings.