The expression "Black Lives Matter" by itself has no meaning because it requires the speaker to say "to whom" these black lives matter. As it is, there is an implication that to some, black lives do NOT matter. The speaker will need to say who those people are also. We can assume that we already know who those respective people are, but we also need to assume that they are actually addressing "us" when they make this chant. So it requires us to know a lot about the facts ahead of time, in order to know what they are trying to say. This is poorly done.

Ultimately, we lose if we try to take the saying apart and try to understand it. For you will be someone who is questioning their expression of self-worth and that makes you, I don't know, racist maybe?

If someone asked me (they don't, usually) I would reply to them "you need to tell the black murderers in the streets of Chicago about this expression, for they don't seem to think these lives matter." Or maybe the shorter response, "why are you telling me?"

All above are terms created by Socialist Idealogs. All these minority groups are anachistic in nature. They want everything for themselves for Free. They don't want any laws that they believe that are holding them back. They want recognition for there own mandates. Everyone else be damned. No more Morals anything goes! No more God, no more religion only theirs they made up. Jobs with no participation they just want $15.00/hr. They want HC as their President.

life matters, and Thank You Sir! -- j
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too true!

J) All lives that respect my individual life and rights matter.

I was but a precious prehistoric little poot.

G. I'll re-frame the correct answer. Conscious lives matter, including those that have a decent chance of becoming so.
When the very survival of mankind and his conscious mind are at stake, is it necessarily our concern that those that oppose us by 180° might be awakened?

In my mind, that is the real question.

MA- Tho' pained to the quick and bereft at the error, I must dolorously point to that which thou hast done. 'Tis not 'temp' but but 'tempt' which thou shouldst express.

All I can say is that old dino was a movie star back in 1925 before anyone even thought about that stupid T-Rex.

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To say any particular ethnic group lives matter more than the others is racism

You do know I'm being facetious, don't you?

H) All lives matter, unless you're killed by someone in your own race, tribe, etc.; then they don't matter.

"Most" lives matter...in my opinion.

To put it in perspective...when an "innocent" life is taken, it hurts me, even if I don't know the person. On the other hand, if some "lifer" criminal dies, I either don't care, or I celebrate.

As the "Black lives matter" movement is patently racist, I refuse to respect it.

Nobody's. We're all just livestock.

B. But there is a priority of order. No one else's life matters to you if you don't matter to yourself first.

There is also the question of how much value is being produced by those others.

mattboston,,, Unless you are a socialist believing that all lives are there for anybodys use no matter what the relationship and that you have a right to their lives, profits and assets and can take their possessions by force or have your government thugs do it for you.

All lives matter, but none as much as mine own. :)

I would agree that every individual's life matter or all lives matter. The point at which an individual's life does not matter is when that person makes choice that can lead to it being taken. You cannot live life without dealing with the consequences of your actions.

One thing I think everyone can agree on is that the life of the individual matters to that individual.
Now, the next thought is what your Mom asked when you cried, she'd say, "What's the matter?" You'd tell her you got a boo-boo climbing on the Jungle Gym. So the the proper statement is not black, white, or any color, but What The Hell Is The Matter?

From whose perspective? Matter to whom? From the perspective of myself as an individual, then D) followed by G) Other - IMMEDIATE social sphere, since I am a social animal, and my fate rests with those of others in my tribe. But I the individual must come first in the ordering of survival priorities for myself as an organism. From the perspective of the tribe and group survival, G) Other - then the tribe matters. Define "tribe" as you will....family, neighborhood, social sphere, city, state, country...

A word to the wise.
Do not ask an allosaur to answer that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPaUd...

(This 'un has 3 fingers before the theropods walked teeter-totter discovery)