My relative once said it was her belief that “every human life has equal worth”. I raised my eyebrows.

Being a philosophy major, I immediately came up with a counter example. “Ok. So, let’s say you had to choose between any two people, and you had to kill one of them. Would the choice between any two people be equally difficult?”

“Yes.” She replied.

I said, “Ok. What about (here I named my dubious friend Bruce) and (here I named a close relative of ours.)

Now, she was silent.