Anthony G. Rubino wrote:
> I would very much like to see your answers to those questions. I would
> also appreciate considering them one at a time beginning with: What are
> values?
Values are, or values mean, that which one seeks to keep or gain,
values are the objects of actions.
NOTE, in the case of life, a value doesn't necessarily mean, a
conscious choice to be made, except for man that is who can make those
choices, life is a given and not a choice, death is the only choice man
has.
Some of man's values are natural e.g. his right to his life, and they
can be as instinctive and as easy to uphold as a simple reflex and yet
other values he must learn and discover the hard way over time.
Animals in the wild (non-human) that kill other animals to survive,
have no choice, they must do so because they are in pursuit of the
required conditions of their life, their life is therefore their
primary value, yes animals have values, all living entities must have
or they perish.
All other living species, except man, must adapt to their suroundings
or perish, man is the only species which can and often must adapt his
suroundings to survive.
Unlike any and all other living entities, man has no automatic means of
survival, even his hunger pains he must learn to recognise.
Because man must adapt his suroundings, then in order to survive, he is
required to carry a code of ethics with him, e.g. he must learn to
recognise, his right ideas and actions from his wrong ideas and
actions, good from bad, a-moral from moral and he will act in
contradiction of those ethics at his peril.
His ethics therefore form a part of his virtues, virtues are the
actions required to obtain values.
Virtues can contradict values, when they do they become immoral
virtues, e.g. there is no moral virtue in socialism, because socialism
contradicts the natural right to be the sole benfactor and the sole
decider of the results of man's own energy.
Socialists like to treat or equate humans like ants, drones and
lemmings, and what's fuckig worse Tony, your lot do it with loot
stollen off the productive, I digress.
Even Robinson Crusoe, prior to Friday coming along, had to learn right
from wrong, good from bad.
For values to be consistent and non-contradicting of each other, then
they require standards that they can be judged against.
Reality i.e. non-contradiction is therefore an obvious standard of the
a-moral values and human life YOUR LIFE is the logical standard of all
moral values, why? Because not even you would want to live according to
MY peaceful values why? Fucked if I know, you tell me, it is after all
your life that I believe you ought have.
MG
