Accept

When we accept our values as truth we stop seeing that there are other people in the world with good values. We start believing that we are right, our values are right, and that the rest of the world that is different from us is wrong and unmentionable. There is no direct association between truth and values. In fact, values are nothing more than mere opinions about what is right in the world. So how can an opinion be translated so firmly into fact. We once held the values that marriage could only be held between two people of the same race. When we realized that value was wrong, we wrote laws to correct our error. Now we say that marriage can only be between two people of the opposite gender, and we call that values. Is it not an opinion just like interracial marriage values were an opinion? We have determined that people in jail are all criminals and are not able to be rehabilitated and we call those values. Yet that is still a very critical opinion. We say that the educational system is flawed and we send our children to religious schools that do not teach sciences thoroughly but we call that a value. It is interesting how we back up our thoughts and feelings with the notion that we have values. Yet we don’t offer a different opinion and challenge our values because we claim that values are a state of truth. This is a very interesting state of society that really needs to be countered. When we mistake our values as the truth we stunt the growth of the country. What is most ironic is that we have a very high crime rate and a very high homeless rate. Yet we are unwilling to entertain the values of other countries who have greater economic growth and stability and almost no homelessness or crime and entertain that their values might actually be better than ours.