Acquired Values

Values or principles that we, humans uphold are often of two kinds. The profound human values are that of morale. These are very essential and they define who we are. But then there are those other values which we acquire as a result of being a part of a group say, a religious group or a group of people who belong to the same religion. These values can be classified as personal and cultural values.



Now, the theory of the value system goes something like this. We first setup a set of basic or core values as we would like to call and then base rest of the values around these set of values. Coming to the acceptance of values, it is very relative and subjective if you think about it. They vary based on the culture, ethnicity, demographics and so many more factors. So, there are no set of universal values and it is all very relative.


Personal values are those which you develop over a period of time and are subjected to change based on the change in the outer world. You develop these intrinsic set of values from childhood and they change as you grow up based on the socio economic factors and other social conditions.



Cultural values are those which are largely shared by a group of people who belong to a sorority or a community. These are mostly based on ones ethnicity and the kind of people one grows up with. Again these are subjected to change too. If a set of people express that some value is poses a threat to the community, then such values will be modified or omitted by the sorority.

Blaming The Values

We blame values for judgment. We use the word values as a reminder for our judgments. We determine our values as right, we cast them onto our children, and we look down on those who do not meet our definition of those standards. How interesting that we use family values as a political platform. We called it family values and the world responded with votes, even though no one ever defined what those values really were. What are your family’s values? Chances are there are plenty of judgments in them.

What is the point of creating family values when we aren’t even able to recognize what they really are or how to use them? One group offers up a value, or judgment and everyone who agrees with them is suddenly on board with their value system. Another person disagrees and holds up a different notion and we have another value system developing. Why is it so important for one value to be right over another? Why are people not permitted to develop their own values and be left alone for at least having them rather than having different ones and being hounded about them? When did the word values mean to exclude people who live differently from you?

When we teach our children values we teach them what we believe is right. How often do we teach them the rightness of someone else’s values for their own family? How often do we allow a different value system to challenge our own and allow our children to choose for themselves without argument? Perhaps it is time that we all define what a family value is before we elect politicians who use the catch phrase.

People without values

Unfortunately, there are people, who have no values at all. These people occur very often today. They are guided by their natural instincts and such notions as responsibility, morality, friendship are absolutely unfamiliar to them. These people have no friends. They simply don’t need them. They consider people only as an opportunity to get something from them. They are absolutely irresponsible. They can promise something but fail to keep this promise; they can swear and easily break their oath. Moral people are very often surprised, when they come across these people. Moral people can’t understand immorality. Immorality is a terrible thing. Fortunately, immoral people suffer from their immorality in the long run. Such is the law of our life. Laws of life are unbreakable. People without values don’t live long. They usually die very quickly and suffer very much while dying. These people are evil and evil can’t live long, as it annihilates itself. When evil grows, it becomes absolute and thus kills itself. Avoid immoral people. They will deceive you and will make a fool of you. It is very easy to understand whether a person you meet is moral or immoral. This becomes understandable from the first talk. However, there are simpletons, whose belief in people is measureless and they are deceived again and again and don’t learn a lesson from it. Don’t be a simpleton. Don’t think that all people are good. Don’t also think that all people are bad. Stick to the golden middle.