Poll: What do you value the most?

What do you value the most?

  • Your survival.

    Votes: 53 22.6%

  • Your money.

    Votes: 13 5.6%

  • Your happiness.

    Votes: 81 34.6%

  • Your kin, friends, or community.

    Votes: 75 32.1%

  • Your reputation.

    Votes: 9 3.8%

  • Your sovereign state’s form of government (democracy, monarchy, dictatorship, etc.).

    Votes: 3 1.3%
  • Total voters
    234
  • Poll closed .
I'm so tempted to pick the last option in order to piss off Luduan, but I won't.

Probably Friends and Family, though if material items go with money, then money is in second, as it contributes greatly to my happiness, which would be next. Survival is meh
 
Anyone who doesn't answer "Your happiness" clearly doesn't get that...

That's the only right answer...

Your friends and family are of value to you because they make you happy, and when they're sad, you're sad, when they're hurt, you're hurt...

Money is of value because with it you can ensure that you have things that will make you happy etc.
 
I chose friends and family, because I would be willing (at least I believe I would) to sacrifice any of the others for them, ie I will happily give money to friends if they need it, I would let my name be dragged through the mud to spare someone else that I cared about from having it done, I often do things that maybe I don't enjoy because my friends like to (and I suppose that their enjoyment makes me a bit happy, so the two go hand in hand I guess for me). I truly believe that I would even risk my life to save that of a friend or family member, although luckily I have never been in that situation.

I guess I get a lot of happiness from seeing others happy, so my happiness comes directly from my friends, I don't think I could be happy without them.
 
Atyroki said:
Anyone who doesn't answer "Your happiness" clearly doesn't get that...

That's the only right answer...

Your friends and family are of value to you because they make you happy, and when they're sad, you're sad, when they're hurt, you're hurt...

Money is of value because with it you can ensure that you have things that will make you happy etc.
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Who said that happiness is mutually exclusive?
I'm sure many people can be happy without money, without other people. Sure it's a small proportion, especially the last one, but it can be achieved.

Happiness on the other hand is dependent on life, it's impossible to be happy without being alive, though it is possible to be alive and not happy.

So under your logic, survival is the 'right answer'.
 
I did not vote money. I do not know why it says I did.

Happiness is the most important. All the others can affect it (positively or negatively) but it's still the important one.
 
Hmmmm the thing is survival works if you dont believe in an afterlife.

Its the right answer without an afterlife for sure. You have 1 life to live and you want to live as long as possible without suffering, its pretty simple.
 
-Zer0- said:
Survival is the most important thing in life, really.

As long as youre somewhat happy.
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Then in that case you value happiness more.

Your second point is also wrong. I don't believe in an afterlife, and yet I believe that happiness is more important than survival. I value the quality of my life over the quantity. If survival were to somehow cause unbearable misery then I would chose death.

edit: Well not wrong, but it isn't totally correct because it depends on the individuals philosophy.
 
LMPL said:
Then in that case you value happiness more.

Your second point is also wrong. I don't believe in an afterlife, and yet I believe that happiness is more important than survival. I value the quality of my life over the quantity. If survival were to somehow cause unbearable misery then I would chose death.

edit: Well not wrong, but it isn't totally correct because it depends on the individuals philosophy.
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No, not happiness. Not suffering is really the term. Of course you wouldnt want to live for 1000 years and have a crappy life but living 100 years and being content vs. 50 and being extremely happy Id go with the former.
 
Yeah altmer, the issue here is that happiness can be brought on by anything here (though survival is still most important).
 
I voted #4. I really do value friends and family a lot more than myself or just my happiness. My survival is beneficial to those around me; something like suicide is a dumb notion to me because it supposedly harms those close to me, moreso than I care just about my own survival.
 
Happiness obviously

If my whole family died in a plane crash and I was starving on an island, but I'm still happy, then so be it
 
Money? Reputation? That government thing? (which I am sure of is a joke by now) These things seem rather shallow, and I am glad to see by the poll results that everybody has their priorities straight, the most admirable of which would obviously be the one about kin, friends, and community. In the end, these things do not matter, especially in the afterlife, where most of the option in the poll are nonexistant? It is good to know that people on this forum (most of them, at least) are not shallow.
 
Ok, I was going for total gut reaction so I actually missed happiness as I skimmed the list of possibilities and chose survival. I'm not sure whether I would've changed my vote though... I mean, if I had the option of living forever (survival to the extreme) but hating every second of the rest of my life, I am pretty sure I would not choose that. However, in less extreme cases, I don't know if I would compromise my survival for some kind of immediate happiness, or something like that. After all, the expected gain in pleasure/happiness after you die is zero unless you assume an afterlife.

I don't know, maybe I'm overanalyzing it, but I don't know if there is any plausible situation where I would opt against survival. There is actually no person or cause to which I am so devoted right that I would cede my life, and therefore my ability to accumulate experiences and feel happiness or pleasure. This is a selfish perspective, but I don't think you can make a good decision on your own life without considering yourself first.
 
Technically if you die why would you value anything else? If your a corpse you would care about family reptation friends happiness $$$ or anything.
 
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