Mini-Feature: Do Actions Determine Personal Value?
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Do all people have equal value regardless of their actions or is a person’s value based on their actions? Value is one of those words that pushes people in the direction of making and accepting bad answers to good questions. Of course, trivially so, is someone’s value dependent at least in part on their actions. People make themselves “useless” all the time, and their stock in all regards—economic, cultural, political, spiritual, etc.—tumbles accordingly.
Mini-Feature: Do Actions Determine Personal Value?
Mini-Feature: Do Actions Determine Personal…
Mini-Feature: Do Actions Determine Personal Value?
Do all people have equal value regardless of their actions or is a person’s value based on their actions? Value is one of those words that pushes people in the direction of making and accepting bad answers to good questions. Of course, trivially so, is someone’s value dependent at least in part on their actions. People make themselves “useless” all the time, and their stock in all regards—economic, cultural, political, spiritual, etc.—tumbles accordingly.