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Quote by: grandpa No, I've said vlues cannot be adequately quanitified, as they are constantly in flux.
I value things. But the part about capitalism existsing to keep people poor is true, though I think people would work without being held down. |
Is it really necessary for values to be adequately quantified? I would say no. Otherwise, I agree with you that they cannot. Also, I'd like to add that, from what I understand, values vary from individual to individual. Hence there can be no objective standard with which to quantify them.
Can you explain to us what you mean by "held down"? Of course, we've heard your position a thousand times already, that capitalism exists to keep people poor. Yet you've failed to provide a sufficiently coherent definition of "poverty", preferring instead to invoke the vague notions of "basic needs" and "natural circumstances", as if you expect those terms to be self-evident to the rest of us -- which, I assure you,
they are not. Furthermore, although a commonly-held set of definitions is essential for continuing debate, it is foolish to expect (let alone demand or assume) that everyone else already agrees to the definitions that you yourself hold to.
While you may well think that people would "work" without being "held down", do you have any proof to back up your assertion? Otherwise, we may well be obliged to treat it as no more than a platitude.
- Rob