Values
Life, business, play... life; it’s all about values or their absence.
Many people have real difficulty in actually caring
about their own values, much less trying to make sense of them.
The exercise of knowing where one genuinely stands on any given issue is not a trivial jumping to conclusions. Many of us do exactly that and as a result end up supporting a position which in reality goes against our real values. It is why logic matters. Logic is merely a tool to help us understand where we really want to land on a given subject. It is not a device to trick us into saying something we do not believe
The problem is that once a view has been expressed, usually from an emotional reaction, we have a tendency to see all attempts that turn us away from that view as “twisting my words.”
When the subject matter is something that genuinely moves us, to anger, joy, disgust, fear pride or grief, it is that much more difficult to examine our values if that examination hints at something less than a clear cut reinforcement of our emotional response. ... Read More
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