OneOfMany – Sorry I was unclear, I didn’t mean they discussed Jewish individuals, I meant they discussed all human beings, and there may have been elements in the Jewish community who were willing to entirely concede to them, but the consensus amongst us has seems to have been that at least for Jews, there is ????? ?????.
And I do hear what you are saying about being created in God’s image. However you really have to define what exactly that means, because if it is indeed something so uniquely special in each individual then why would there be no hashgacha on it?