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>>15607495
First we need to think about what value means to us in a particular situation. For example, if we wanted a chocolate ice-cream, given we had all the ingredients and equipment to make it, a chef's life would have some positive non-zero instrumental value to us.(Is this utilitarian reasoning? I'm not sure. Sure, you can look upon it as-> icecream=good->alive chef= ice-cream->therefore alive=good. But is all instrumental value utilitarian?)
Other than some sort of instrumental value, what kind of value could we have? Intrinsic value is an axiom in itself, and is its own proof.
Fundamentally, we believe life is precious because if we didn't, then we couldn't have all this cool shit. Not a satisfying answer, I know.
How about this: Most languages in the world code life as good and death as bad. you can put forth an evolutionary hypothesis as to why this is: evolution is a hill climbing algorithm that optimizes for survivability, therefore, our language develops with 'selection pressures' towards this particular coding of life as good and death as bad. Since our language is structured in such a way that life is good and death is bad, we believe that life is good and death is bad. (I am making a structuralist/post-strucuralist argument here).
How's that?

>>13887471
Nichijou,
Cowboy Bebop,
Anything by Miyazaki,
and personally, Hyouka.