(January 13, 2016 at 7:53 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Our brains assign value to the acts because they believe that state of the person has value objectively. Whether there exists such a thing is different to say that we assign value due to belief in the objective value.
So, this is where using objective/subjective becomes confusing.
It is a fact that some acts are interpreted in a positive manner by the brain. We label this as value. But that is the relationship between our brain and that act..
If I'm trying to start a fire, I may value a pile of sticks over a big rock. That's a factual description of the relationship between my brain and those items at that time.
But if you put a pile of sticks and a rock in a vaccuum, and say which is more valuable, there is no way to compare them. They are both just things devoid of value without some relationship to give them context.
The point being, that the value of a stick or a rock is not inherent. The value is a description of relationships between things.
