VALUES
What are these things called values? Politicians keep bandying the word about, but nobody defines what values are. Republicans say democrats don't have any, and democrats say republicans have the wrong ones. Yet neither side defines what they mean.
One dictionary definition of values is the intrinsic worth of something. I once defined the term as what one considers worth working for. I suspect that at least in the sense used by politicians values simply refer to the things the speaker likes.
However values are defined, what are the units by which they are measured? The current buzz word is metrics, so what are the metrics of values? If we can't define how values are measured, how can we know if some are better than others?
A different question: Where is the intelligence in a Designer who creates life forms that can only survive by killing and eating each other? Doesn't sound like much thought went into that creative process, certainly not any compassion--let alone love.
One dictionary definition of values is the intrinsic worth of something. I once defined the term as what one considers worth working for. I suspect that at least in the sense used by politicians values simply refer to the things the speaker likes.
However values are defined, what are the units by which they are measured? The current buzz word is metrics, so what are the metrics of values? If we can't define how values are measured, how can we know if some are better than others?
A different question: Where is the intelligence in a Designer who creates life forms that can only survive by killing and eating each other? Doesn't sound like much thought went into that creative process, certainly not any compassion--let alone love.
posted by Jerry at 6:26 PM
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