Human Value Nonexistent?

[genkaus]

Yes, unless it can be shown to be. But we don't know if praise can be shown to be. We assume it can.

Maybe you don't. Don't assume the same for others

Subjectively, yes it has worth to us, but it doesn't mean there is actual basis to it.

You don't think the action actually happened? That action is the actual basis of praise.

Yes, true. But just because we believe something is worthy, doesn't it mean it is.

But if we prove it, the question of belief is irrelevant.

We have a concept of praise, but it maybe paradoxical.

Not to those who understand its roots.

But we give it worth out of believe it has worth. So it seems circular:

"We give it worth, therefore it has worth"
"Why do we give it worth, because it has worth"

Paradoxically confusing.

That is where you are wrong. There would be no point in giving it worth if it already has worth. The basis of that worth we give it is not some imagined preexisting worth, but the nature and the purpose of the object itself.

How?

By determining its suitability for purpose.

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Everyone has a criteria. They don't simply make up their value with total randomness. It's a struggling type choosing beliefs.

Try being rational in the choice.

We have moral instincts to praise love. We appreciate it. But what is the foundational basis to the praise? Simply because we praise it, therefore it's praiseworthy? But we praise because we believe it's praiseworthy.

Our moral instinct is praise love. We evolved praising one another and loving one another.

Without belief in worth of humanity, we wouldn't have made it this far and evolved to what we are.

But is instinct beliefs justification?

This is a good argument for why instincts don't serve as justifications. You are simply defeating strawman arguments here - coming up with invalid justifications and then arguing why they are not justified.