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Unchanging Values in A Changing World

While the world and people are constantly changing, values do not change. Values provide enduring guidelines for conduct that persist over time. Certain values like justice and respect for women have remained universal across cultures because they provide evolutionary benefits like social order and propagating the human species. Though people and situations may change, values stay the same as long as they are positive and promote growth, regardless of whether others accept them or not. In a fast-changing world, unchanging values can be both advantageous by providing stability, and disadvantageous by encouraging conservatism that resists change.

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Unchanging Values in A Changing World

While the world and people are constantly changing, values do not change. Values provide enduring guidelines for conduct that persist over time. Certain values like justice and respect for women have remained universal across cultures because they provide evolutionary benefits like social order and propagating the human species. Though people and situations may change, values stay the same as long as they are positive and promote growth, regardless of whether others accept them or not. In a fast-changing world, unchanging values can be both advantageous by providing stability, and disadvantageous by encouraging conservatism that resists change.

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Fast Paced World, Unvarying Values

“Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values” -Dalai Lama

The world is constantly changing anywhere from advancements in technology


to changes in the environment. Humans are also always changing mentally and
physically. Our world changes every day without most of us ever seeing or noticing any
changes, but as we look back in history, we can see some tremendous changes.

People often claim that values have changed because we are in the fast-
paced world of the twenty-first century. They say things are different now: “Today’s
world has placed a premium on material development, sacrificing many moral and
spiritual values on the altar of material progress” (Bennani, 2004)

In this rapidly changing world, are values changing or not?

Values are basic and fundamental beliefs that guide or motivate attitudes or
actions. They help us to determine what is important to us. Values describe the personal
qualities we choose to embody to guide our actions; the sort of person we want to be;
the manner in which we treat ourselves and others, and our interaction with the world
around us. They provide the general guidelines for conduct.

Generally, time and value change. But in reality, only time does. The world may
have changed but the people’s value hasn’t. Values do not change. People, situations,
expectations and interpretation may change; but values persist as an enduring
framework for conduct. Values may be ignored, misused or manipulated, but they are
consistent: their call to good conduct is always robust.

Unchanging values may have both disadvantageous and advantageous effects


in a fast-changing world. These values are indicative of conservatism, which seeks to
retain age old customs and traditions, because some people treasure the past while
others are just afraid to take in the present. Nevertheless, this attitude is more important
in the field of arts.

People have this perspective to act in relation to what others feel or tell them. As
a result, their values at respective times change. But the truth is, no matter how
convinced and intuitive you are about a value, it doesn't change what the truth of a
value express.

It is true that over thousands of years of human existence, there are some values
that remain universal across cultures as a matter of evolutionary benefit, such as valuing
women in order to propagate the species. Such values have to remain unchanged if
we desire to continue our reign on Earth. Another would be the value of justice, which
means those who wish ill intent upon you or your community will be served some form of
justice to prevent others from thinking to do so. From exile or execution in tribal times to
jail sentences in modern times, the value stays same in that humans admonish such
behavior, and for good reason.

Value stays value as long as it’s positive and brings growth. Value stays value
even if no one accepts its value. Value doesn't need a number of people to judge its
validity. From there we shall stay what we are, we shall value

Value never change, but time does.

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