On the Proposition that Nothing's Inherently Valuable and Delusion is Behind Values

 Nothing is inherently valuable therefor values are delusional? Consider this for a minute.

Proposition: Nothing is (inherently) valuable; inference 1- values are delusional.- Points of fact-Values are variables and have utility meaning or worth. Some value assignments are in error while some are correct. For example; if walking across the Mohave Desert in August a bottle of ice-water would slake thirst and is valued for reducing thirst; consideration... Thirst occurs in walking or riding a bike in the Mohave desert in August. Water slakes (reduces thirst). If a bottle of ice water is valued as a thirst quencher, and it does quench thirst, the proposition value paradigm is correct rather than delusional.

Values are like words and word strings that are used by a sentient being to communicate. Values are also generally a subjective form of communication for-oneself assigning values or utility or worth to various objects, service, events etc. Such things are not inherently valuable only in the sense that words do not cohere in objects in a sentient way. Even so, while anti-matter is quite uncommon and difficult to produce, it's value or utility lies in scarcity and difficulty to obtain for those that want some. The desire to have an object in relation to its intrinsic scarcity create a value in the minds of those that want it. Value is an estimation of what is required to obtain, affect, change or control part of the real world directly identified.

Morality and Value Systems

Axiology has a plethora of products. Yet if morality describes what people actually do regarding behavioral norms, wicked behavior counts as much as ideal systems designed by philosophers. The first civilization mentioned in Genesis was destroyed for the wicked ways of the people. Humans had pretty bad morals 10 or 20 thousand years ago. A non-battle site at a village excavated in the Middle East found that about 80% of the people had died from crushed skulls. Police weren't about for a few thousand years.

God is a light in the darkness for humanity. The God of Abraham and His Son Jesus Christ have reached a billion people with the word and some element of faith at least nominally, yet it would be an over reach to say that human morality is primarily based on divine inspiration. It may be so that the world’s major religions have shaped at least nominally the majority of the systems of 8 billion living people. I don’t believe there is any sort of pro forma adherence to the morality of major religious systems that govern day to day life of a majority though, as if they were strict Jews in the Temple era before God with the Lord brought a new covenant as promised.

The sort of morality people of the west have today probably has a fiscal basis reflecting permissible behavior in regard to a political economy rather than Christian ethics or perhaps those of some other religious system.

Secular humanism’s practical focus isn’t much different from the humanism that even Christians have accepted. I attended one theology school where there seemed to be agreement that asceticism isn’t popular today. I suppose most commercial Christians sleep on mattresses and take baths instead of sleeping on the ground and get a shower every few months. They probably use worldly medical care generally. It didn’t seem like Jesus would eschew common goods; it’s just the value one fixes them with that matter. If one focuses on God and His will the Lord said He would provide. He mentioned that a human is worth many sparrows, and sparrows are provided for. https://www.udio.com/songs/wKdkBuPCwuTayHZ8RWiBtp