Yes. They're provisionally the best based on what I have access to and where I am right now.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
But no-one would say 'I hold these values but admit that those other ones are better' because then in what sense do they hold the former?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Clever. In the sense that the values you think are best *are* your values, you think your values are the best.
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Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose
Though I guess someone could say - I think the Buddha's values are the best, but I'm personally not able to live by those standards.
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Yes but then this is an admission of a weakness and not an assertion of the best values.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
There may be a difference between the values you have, and the values you think are the very best.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
For instance, a Christian might say that 'turn the other cheek' is the best value, but not actually try to live by that value himself.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
But then he either doesn't really hold those values & is a hypocrite or he holds them but fails to live up to them.
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Maybe he just thinks he's not able to live up to those values - that it's too difficult for him - so he chooses sub-optimal values instead.
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Right, so sub-optimal values are not the best values. But he'd probably argue they were sub-optimal.
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