A problem here is that values that are instrumentally useful, can become terminal values that humans value for their own sake.
For example, equality under the law is very useful in many societies, especially modern capitalistic ones; but a lot of people (me included) feel it has strong intrinsic value. In more traditional and low-trust societies, the tradition of hospitality is necessary for trade and other exchanges; yet people come to really value it for its own sake. Family love is evolutionarily adaptive, yet also something we value.
So just because some value has developed from a suboptimal system does not mean that it isn’t worth keeping.
Ok, that makes sense. Rhetorically, how would one differentiate the terminal values worth keeping from those worth updating. For example, hospitality ‘requirement’ from the free ability to choose to be hospitable from the ability to choose environments of various hospitability attitudes. I would really offer the emotional understanding of all options and let individuals freely decide. This should resolve the issue of persons favoring their environments due to limited awareness of alternatives or the fear of consequences of choosing an alternative. Then, you could get to more fundamental terminal values, such as the perception of living in a truly fair system (instead of equality under the law, which can still perpetuate some unfairness), ability to interact only with those with whom one wishes to (instead of hospitality), and understanding others’ preferences for interactions related to oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin release and choosing to interact with those where preferences are mutual (instead of family love), for example. Anyway, thank you.
A problem here is that values that are instrumentally useful, can become terminal values that humans value for their own sake.
For example, equality under the law is very useful in many societies, especially modern capitalistic ones; but a lot of people (me included) feel it has strong intrinsic value. In more traditional and low-trust societies, the tradition of hospitality is necessary for trade and other exchanges; yet people come to really value it for its own sake. Family love is evolutionarily adaptive, yet also something we value.
So just because some value has developed from a suboptimal system does not mean that it isn’t worth keeping.
Ok, that makes sense. Rhetorically, how would one differentiate the terminal values worth keeping from those worth updating. For example, hospitality ‘requirement’ from the free ability to choose to be hospitable from the ability to choose environments of various hospitability attitudes. I would really offer the emotional understanding of all options and let individuals freely decide. This should resolve the issue of persons favoring their environments due to limited awareness of alternatives or the fear of consequences of choosing an alternative. Then, you could get to more fundamental terminal values, such as the perception of living in a truly fair system (instead of equality under the law, which can still perpetuate some unfairness), ability to interact only with those with whom one wishes to (instead of hospitality), and understanding others’ preferences for interactions related to oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin release and choosing to interact with those where preferences are mutual (instead of family love), for example. Anyway, thank you.