(December 3, 2018 at 10:14 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote:(December 3, 2018 at 9:56 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Then I don't agree with your definition of the word "value." Power is not necessary to a computer's operation, as a computer is operating perfectly fine just sitting there being a collection of metal and plastic particles. It's only if an outside observer wants the computer to DO something that there's any value to the power.Well, okay, but do you disagree with it for it for any reason that would be relevant to it's use in ethical theories or in any sense of it's objective signification? That someone wants something doesn't actually actually make that value necessarily subjective in the sense that moral theorists are referring to anyway. A person could want something because it is valuable.
No. It's valuable because the person wants it, or something associated with it. There's no such thing as value without a subjective attribution of value.
