values, n.Definitions

Values is caught, not taught.

Values is always a product of unimaginably lengthy developmental processes, personal, cultural, biological.

Values is always a matter of compromise. Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

Values is the debased coin of our times: solid silver replaced by a cheesy nickel-and-copper facsimile.

Values is not self-determinable because we cannot merely impose what we believe on our souls