where do values come from
... At one extreme we speak of economic values based on products, wealth, prices --on highly material things. ... Among such spiritual values are freedom, peace, justice, equity. A value system is a group of interconnected values that form a system and reinforce each other. ... To be precise, it is necessary to distinguish clearly between the values themselves and the means of attaining them. ... In any society, therefore, you will now find different systems of values co-existing -- but not peacefully -- side by side." While it is difficult to pin down just what individual values are it is helpful if we consider them to be the result of our inherited character, our genes worked upon by the values we acquire, simple ones initially, from the adults who are responsible for our nuture and survival during our early dependent and most formative years. ... The second are values where there is normally an element of consensus implied, as in terms such as fair, decent, seemly and tolerant. ... The term values can be in be used in every walk of life refering to values regarding work, values regarding family or even values regarding politics, but the real core of these values are the values directly related to the individual which are the human values. It is from these human values that all the other different types of values form. From values is how we create the personal world, and not the real world, we live in. We use them as a net to catch our impressions of other people, to formulate inout minds a working hypothesis of what other people want from us and how we can most effectively interact with them, to furthur our personal aims and interests as they are assessed by our personal values. Values provide each of us with a unique, personal moral template that we use to assess the intentions and actions of others and the importance of the likely outcome of those various actions and reactions.