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Julie G.'s picture

Value

 I think that value is a necessary part of life. We make decisions every day placed on values. Imagine trying to make a decision and having no value to determine which is the better variable. However, I think placing universals upon personal values is where things start to get murky. Saying some things are intrinsically better than others is not acknowledging one's particular mode of logic, or perspective, but rather saying that there is an other, total mode of logic, or type of storytelling, that governs all others. Whilst this may be desirable, given that in throughout human history, this has never been agreed upon, it seems unlikely that such a logic exists. However, in society, it becomes necessary to have something like this, which we call laws. But laws are malleable and change alongside culture, which changes alongside individuals, which are influenced by culture, and so on, and so forth.

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