No life can be paid for with another. So we are not able to value worth in this manner. HOWEVER, if we HAD to it would be 1.

1 life.

An eye is worth an eye. A tooth is worth a tooth. http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/CODE.HTM

No life is worth more than another

about half. it's probably a 2 - 1 ratio. i believe that America saves a ton of lives through monetary aid, relief funds and missions. America's breadbasket feeds millions of people outside its borders. American services and products save many lives around the world. America produces surpluses of a lot of stuff. No offense to 'insert 3rd country here' but they don't do much for the rest of the world.

You cannot put the worth of any life above another. They are all precious.

NONE! One human life should not be traded for another, unless it's in regards of self defense.

Worth to whom? And in what terms? The inherent value of human life in purely philosophical and spiritual terms is a consistent absolute, any life is worth exactly the same as any other. But unfortunately, the establishments that kill so many people don't adhere to philosophical or spiritual, or even remotely human terms, they only adhere to the idea of how much a human life is worth in money, and that *Is* variable. In those greedy, corrupt, inhuman terms, some humans are worth more to dead than they are alive, and some vice verse. Ex. We Americans are worth more alive because we vote these killers into office, support the economy that funnels money into their pockets, and would cause some uproar if we were killed off because those deaths couldn't be blamed on "Terrorists" or "Insurgents". Whereas a foreigner may be worth more to the establishment dead than alive because these deaths can be discounted as "Collateral Damage" and therefor cost said establishment relatively little, and in the process allow the pilfering and sale of everything that was rightly supposed to be the sovereign right of these people. No human being is any more or less morally wrong to kill than any other, but some human beings are a hell of a lot more *Financially Profitable* to kill than some others. And I think which of those criteria(moral or financial) for judging the "Worth" of a human life means more to the powers that be is fairly apparent from how many people are killed of on a daily basis because of how Financially Profitable their deaths are compared to others.

The current US administration is decreasing the value of life of both american lives and non american lives. 9/11 americans non protiected died; Katrina: americans non protected died; Afganistan: americans dying; Iraq: americans dying. If it is possible to measure how much a life is worth by how it is protected then american lives currently are worth less than non american lives. At the same time there are other countries doing very bad with protecting their citizens lives. Europe is doing better at this time in history (but I'm not happy about this because my wife and son are american). Very, very, very, good question.

well,if you calculate how many non americans have been killed by americans since the creation of the country,and then calculate how many americans have been killed by non americans in the same period in various wars and conflicts that should give you a pretty good idea.

Insufficient data for a meaningful answer. Who are the non-Americans -- collateral damage, enemy combatants, sympathizers? Who are the American lives -- American soldiers, the average man on the street, the President? Not all people are of equal value, and every situation is unique.

Beg pardon, but this very question contributes to the rest of the world's (imho largely correct) negative view of US citizens. (no personal offense intended here; just my 1st reaction upon seeing your question)

In the eyes of the American people and government during a time of war, 1 American life is the top priority, usually. You cant say America cares about other Iraqi's just as much or we would be giving them armored humvees and body armor too lol.