RE: Human Value Nonexistent?
October 29, 2012 at 12:12 pm
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2012 at 12:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You're ignoring the possibility that myths were simply an elaborate way of expressing a value we already perceived within ourselves and each other (and if the remnants of our little social units are any indicator of the inner workings of men we valued each other long before we went about myth-making). I don't know if I'd characterize the hold of mythology as granting any sort of harmony either.
Personally, I don't require any more justification for the value I set on my self or others than that it is my own. It is the value I choose to assign, I set the terms and conditions, because my own authority is the only authority with any sway regarding the value judgements made by yours truly.
(similarly whether someone "sacrificed for nothing" from our perspective is a fairly moot point from the perspective of the person who did the deed, agreed?)
You know you seem to be of the opinion that a choice must be made between beauty or morality or [insert positively valued shit here] and evolution..or materialism (or anything that seems to suggest to you that we dont have souls/and or magical this or thats). No one asks you to choose between the two, why is this an either or issue? No magic no morality? No magic no beauty? Meh, I call shenanigans.
Personally, I don't require any more justification for the value I set on my self or others than that it is my own. It is the value I choose to assign, I set the terms and conditions, because my own authority is the only authority with any sway regarding the value judgements made by yours truly.
(similarly whether someone "sacrificed for nothing" from our perspective is a fairly moot point from the perspective of the person who did the deed, agreed?)
You know you seem to be of the opinion that a choice must be made between beauty or morality or [insert positively valued shit here] and evolution..or materialism (or anything that seems to suggest to you that we dont have souls/and or magical this or thats). No one asks you to choose between the two, why is this an either or issue? No magic no morality? No magic no beauty? Meh, I call shenanigans.
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