Why are presidents , politician's, priest's, judges lives considered more important than your own.?

Question

or how can a society profess equality when it obliviously is not at any level

Answer 1

I can see the importance in the lives of good leaders. Good leaders are good for the people and the society and when they are not leaders anymore, for any reason, things often turn for the worse. But, I don't see any difference between people and people in general. A title either inherited or earned doesn't make you better or more important than people it just makes you the holder of a title.

I think that the general idea is that they hold a title and through that they have to be good, and people in general don't want to sped time thinking deeper so they just accept it as true.