An old friend from high school writes in his blog:
“Core values.” What the fuck are those? There’s no such thing as a value strata, in which other values radiate out from a chocolatey center of values. If one of your values is “don’t steal,” it’s pointless to have “don’t steal dildos on Tuesday” as a secondary value. Either you have values, or you don’t. Fuck “core values” down to its very … core.
As someone who is consciously, deliberately trying to show the world one can be moral and value-centered without any kind of religious crutch, I like this a lot. It’s a subject I’ve had cause to think on a lot lately, so Geoff’s post was well timed. Chewy.
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As we discussed at Balticon, in part, it’s the short and succinct truisms that often hit home the most powerfully. Chewy, indeed.