Life has value. Affective value, moral value. Economic value: in the health and transportation departments, those responsible use statistical meters to weigh the value of life. In fact, authorities have to make choices to reduce the likelihood of death. Parcelsus (1493-1541), the medical army, was the first to think about measuring human life. In the seventeenth century, however, economic compensation for vital saturation was devised and human economic value continued to be measured more concretely. Since then, the measured values of life in roads or in medicine have been defined.

In Bizkitarte, not all human lives have the same value in reality, that is what stands out Benoît Bréville, in his last issue of Le Monde Diplomatique, in his article If you see them it valaient… [If the living had the same value…]. In this column, Bréville shows that rich western countries have given more value to the lives of Ukrainians than Gaza. The Ukrainians have been greeted in our countries, but the French President, Macron, after four months of extermination, has referred to the desirability and necessity of receiving about 50 wounded Palestinian children. Similarly, U.S. President Joe Biden rebelled when Mariupol hospital was bombed using the word genocide, but he has not denounced anything when a third of Gaza's hospitals have been blown up. Bréville believes that the main media prefer to compare the number of deaths in Sixteen with the Israeli population: 1,200 murders, compared to 8 million inhabitants, would be twenty "11 de la Cabeza" in the United States or one hundred "Bataclan" in France. Nehork does not speak of 20,000 victims in Gaza, in a country of 2.8 million people, in France proportionally 580,000 deaths, or in the USA 2.8 million. It must also be realised that 70% of the prisoners in Gaza have had to leave their home, which is what it would be in France 50 million or in the United States 200 million… No, everyone who lives is not worth the same, in the world public space.

Members of the Cauri association in the Bordeaux area have noted that this year they have been fighting for knowledge of the genocide of the Rwandan Tutsis for 30 years, in order to prevent the French power from believing that it is natural for Africans to constantly face each other. In recent weeks, thanks to the efforts of Cauri members, Sosthène Munyeman has been processed, a refugee vacuum in France after 29 years of procedure. In the Bordeaux area, fundamentally, the Cauri association shows its support for those who denounce the Palestinian genocide.

That human life is worthless: this view has been endorsed by the NGO Care, which published on 10 January the ten humanitarian crises in the world that have been mentioned at least in 2023. Without great surprises, these "forgotten" diseases, which the mainstream media have stopped mentioning, are passing through Africa.

We need independent media like ARGIA, bold journalists and literature to offer equal value to all lives. However, through testimony and fiction, you can experience true life, as valuable as yours and the distant one.