Does it not all flow from that though? For example, spending time with my children, is valued, versus say wasted time watching the idiot box and being "entertained"...
"May you live in interesting times, and may you get what you want". - Chinese Curse.
We are most certainly in INTERESTING TIMES!
I'm going to give you what you want, by teaching you, and you will destroy yourselves, and bring down the banking system with it... because you value the wrong things.
Telling you the RIGHT thing to value kind of sabotages my agenda ;)
No... I'm just coming at it from the perspective that it's one of the fundamentals of what you are saying throughout this group. A principal.
I try to be sure I have that stuff sorted out in my thinking before moving on in almost anything I examine because "First things first"
Otherwise it is too easy to get lost and go in mental circles.
I remember my grandfather asking me when I was young "Why do you believe what you believe?" And that is something else I try to do consistently is to dissect beliefs in my thinking as I see them and either prove or discard the notion.
I see that is another point you bring up a lot about beliefs