The Choice of Values Is a Luxury Good Produced by Your Polity

Feb 10, 2020, 8:36 PM

When you say you hold X values:

(a) What are you not accounting for and not accounting for?

(b) How does your opinion hold up against the kantian imperative, ‘if everyone did that then’? (Which is just the same as the conservative intuition).

(c) How does your opinion hold up against the kantian imperative in competition with hostile parties within your polity intent on depriving you of your choice or preference?

(d) How does your opinion hold up against the kantian imperative in competition with hostile parties external to your polity intent on depriving you of your choice or preference?

(e) So again, what are you accounting for, or failing to account for?

Values only matter within the limits of the market for tolerance of them in the circumstance – in other words, values are a luxury good produced by reciprocity within the limits of proportionality within the limits of the available geography, ecology, political ecology, economy, location, and time and space.

Demands (Necessities) vs Preferences (Values)