What are your values?

[CapnAwesome]

I got the idea for this thread from Pool's recent thread.

Make a list of some of the more important values you strive to live your life by.

As an example, here are a few things on a short list:

Respect all people
Be humble
Live a moral life
Be generous
Don't be self righteous
Forgive others

Yours?

Well it's safe to say I have different values than you. Of those I would say I only living a moral life is one of my values. I see nothing inherently positive about humility, certainly someone would be just as good of a person if they were doing good deeds whether or not they were humble or not. Not to mention that vatican city and the 4 story tall throne the pope sits his ass on is the opposite of humble. I definitely don't see the value in respecting ALL people.

Nazis, pedophiles, people who abuse the elderly, people who torture their own children, I think society would benefit with a little less respect for some people. Or just plain stupid people cramming uneducated opinions down people's throats.

People have to earn my respect.

Same with self righteousness. I mean, if some IS right, especially as often as I am, I think there is nothing wrong with a little self righteousness.

My values are:
Live a simple life, free of materialism.
Minimize harm to others
Help those who really need help
Consider things from other people points of view.
Never hate.
Own the minimum amount of things I need.

I find, as an Atheist, it is impossible to hate anyone. If you believe everything comes from a combination of nature and nurture, and you are confronted by, say an alt-righter, you either have to say you would do under their circumstances because you have better genetic. In that case you are hating someone because they are genetically inferior to you, which is a disgusting reason. So as an atheist I find hate impossible when I know everything comes from nature or nurture.

Doesn't mean I'm going to respect those people just for being born people though. Nothing particularly impressive about being born a person.