Value (Jan. 5)

What is value? On what sort of things do you place value? Why do you value the things that you do value? In reality we merely value things, but things are just that, merely things. But what is value intrinsically and what value do we place on that intrinsic nature? In an attempt to define value there is a serious lack of definition outside of other words that might suffice as cognates which add no real meaning to the word value. The little bit that can be known about value is that it is completely circumstantial and completely subjective to the individual. What one might find more interesting is the way individuals value things drives their actions to an extreme measure, so much so that the world is left in a place where courts must determine value in all kinds of different circumstances. How can they do that without some universal principal that is outside of circumstance and subjectivity? Now, how much do you value that which you once held so close?