Q&A: Values
Values
Question
1) Is there a person who can live without values, or does every person necessarily have values (like the value of life)?
2) Most values among people are an environmental, social, and psychological product (especially among secular people), so how is the value of fairness really different from the value of serving God, and aren’t my beliefs a factor that influences my values? And if so, doesn’t that basically mean that if one of my beliefs is undermined, then my values are too?
3) What is the difference between a value and a supreme value in its connection to will?
Sorry for going on so long, and thank you very much.
Answer
1. I don’t know. There are psychopaths who perhaps live without values.
2. I didn’t understand the question. Any value that is the deterministic product of some external factor is not a value. But it is not true that all values are like that.
Discussion on Answer
“Any value that is the deterministic product of some external factor is not a value.”
If so, then Rabbi, you are a moral relativist, because the categorical imperative indicates that there are external values.
Wow. How did you jump to that absurd conclusion?
3. ??