Someone said that nothing is inherently valuable therefor values are delusional. Consider this for a minute.
Proposition: Nothing is (inherently) valuable; inference 1- values are delusional.- Points of fact-Values are variables and have utility meaning or worth. Some value assignments are in error while some are correct. For example; if walking across the Mohave Desert in August a bottle of ice-water would slake thirst and is valued for reducing thirst; consideration… Thirst occurs in walking or riding a bike in the Mohave desert in August. Water slakes (reduces thirst). If a bottle of ice water is valued as a thirst quencher, and it does quench thirst, the proposition value paradigm is correct rather than delusional.
Values are like words and word strings that are used by a sentient being to communicate. Values are also generally a subjective form of communication for-oneself assigning values or utility or worth to various objects, service, events etc. Such things are not inherently valuable only in the sense that words do not cohere in objects in a sentient way. Even so, while anti-matter is quite uncommon and difficult to produce, it’s value or utility lies in scarcity and difficulty to obtain for those that want some. The desire to have an object in relation to it’s intrinsic scarcity create a value in the minds of those that want it. Value is an estimation of what is required to obtain, affect, change or control part of the real world directly identified.

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