Good grief, keep up. The list. Money, power, status, power, etc.

Lives are traded for those things every day. Those things are more important than lives. If life was more important, then life would be preserved and money, etc., would be disregarded.

But that's not what happens. It's the other way around.

So life is not the most precious thing there is.

If it was, we'd act like it. But that's cognitive dissonance. The only vaquestion to life is in how it can be traded, exploited, or used as leverage to get these other things. That's the main precoption or mechanism that runs dominance hierarchy. It's a feature of the system, not a bug.

And we all choose it. All day every day.