What makes human life valuable?

Don't act as if this question is a weird thing to contemplate either. Throughout most of human history, and in MANY societies today, it doesn't take all that much to get killed. Things that are normal and celebrated in one place, get you killed in another. So, what basis do we say human life has value?

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DDonde · 31-35, M

it doesn't take all that much to get killed

that's why. it's fragile and life is short. We talk a lot about overpopulation, but in the grand scheme of the world, the universe and all that, human life, intelligent life, is extremely rare.
Value is ultimately a subjective thing though.
That's my take on it.