Judging Values

Whether we know it or not, we all live by a set of values. Even if we think about about values, like many topics, expressing them out loud can clarify one's thoughts. Below are a few ideas to stimulate thought.
Judging Values
Judging can be defined as the capacity to weigh, to discriminate, to discern, to sense that one value is true and another less true. Furthermore, judgements can be refined by formal education and also through experience.
Questions

• How do (your) values develop?

· Can you judge your own and other's values?
· Are there other mechanisms that can be employed to evaluate values?
· Can evaluation even be deployed, implying that there is a Hierarchy of values or is everything relative where values cannot be judged (What I believe and the 'other' believes is all good)?

• How does AI, social media, politics, immigration... or other cultural influences have had an impact on your values?

· Do you think your values are threatened?
· Can (should) you change your values?

• Does your social attachment (tribe, ethnic group, gender, nation, ideology, religious affiliation) exert peer pressure that prevents you from callenging the values of that group?
• This may be a central question. Is rationalization an impossible psychological response that prevents challenging your own values?

· Care to share your set of values? See below for one set of an academic definition of values in the world:

Political scientists Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel assert that there are two major dimensions of cross cultural variation in the world:

1. Traditional values versus Secular-rational values and
2. Survival values versus Self-expression values.
   Traditional values emphasize the importance of religion, parent-child ties, deference to authority and traditional family values. People who embrace these values also reject divorce, abortion, euthanasia and suicide. These societies have high levels of national pride and a nationalistic outlook.
   Secular-rational values have the opposite preferences to the traditional values. These societies place less emphasis on religion, traditional family values and authority. Divorce, abortion, euthanasia and suicide are seen as relatively acceptable. (Suicide is not necessarily more common.)
   Survival values place emphasis on economic and physical security. It is linked with a relatively ethnocentric outlook and low levels of trust and tolerance.
   Self-expression values give high priority to environmental protection, growing tolerance of foreigners, gays and lesbians and gender equality, and rising demands for participation in decision-making in economic