Actually very few lives matter. If, in John Donne's line, "Every man's death diminishes me/ because I am involved in mankind", then the sheer amount of daily death and misery should diminish you to nothing in short order. You matter to those in your Dunbar's Number of people, and simple game theory suggests you should be a polite, civil person, but the idea of "mattering" (like love, hate, etc) is cheapened by overuse.
Actually very few lives matter. If, in John Donne's line, "Every man's death diminishes me/ because I am involved in mankind", then the sheer amount of daily death and misery should diminish you to nothing in short order. You matter to those in your Dunbar's Number of people, and simple game theory suggests you should be a polite, civil person, but the idea of "mattering" (like love, hate, etc) is cheapened by overuse.
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