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Originally Posted by Angela  Ah, so it sounds like you strongly prefer that certain values be questioned or shared. That's not the same thing as those values needing to be questioned or shared -- there doesn't seem to be any real imperative.
(p.s., if my value was masochism, I wouldn't be torturing people in my dungeon, I'd be getting tortured. And I'd be loving it.) |
I meant sadism. Don't get hung up on semantics though. If I were one of your victims, my "strong preference" might as well qualify as a need. A need or imperative is what? Simply a means to an end. If our goal is survival, our needs include food and water. If our goal is a civilized society, as opposed to lawlessness or tyranny, we need shared value systems. Of course in a stricter nihilistic perspective, needs don't even exist.