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To: Lane3 who wrote (115986)	5/24/2005 5:45:46 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793789

OK. I was thinking more in terms of political and philosophical values. This also adds the psychological ("pleasure", "sense of accomplishment"), and the practical ("a comfortable life") as well as the purely supernatural ("salvation"). It makes it much harder to compare IMO. The quest for, or even the idea of, salvation (I assume they mean salvation in the religious "save your soul" "go to heaven" way) does not play a major part in my life, but I do sort of vaguely or mildly believe in Christianity, and if is 100% correct than salvation would be a lot more important to me personally than anything I am likely to do on this earth. I just don't believe with enough strength to make it a focus in my life, even a strong secondary focus. Or how do you compare "a sense of accomplishment, "true friendship", "mature love", "inner harmony", "pleasure", and an exiting life to "freedom. I can maybe compare how having each would effect me, but "freedom" is a bigger thing than just my own personal freedom, or my sense of freedom. Freedom is not only important in that I personally want freedom, and want to feel a sense of freedom, but also in that I want other people to feel free. A lack of freedom is an injustice in the sense that a lack of "true love" or the lack of a lot of pleasure is not. Freedom has a far higher abstract value to me than anything on this list, but does that abstract value even count in a direct comparison to "inner harmony"? In this context does freedom mean, freedom in the abstract, freedom across the world, freedom in my country, my personal freedom, or all of these put together? There is also the fact that some of the terminal values also serve an instrumental role and some of the instrumental values might have some "terminal" importance. Still I guess I'll print it out and try it some time. Tim