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jonmor wrote:
tiompan wrote:
[quote="jonmor"]
Jon ,
that's the crux of the problem .
Again "How does she manage to quantify all the most important values to humans .
Nobody has ever managed to do so and never will .
"
You don't need quantify all to George. The relative value of this or that consideration (using a common measure) is enough to allow comparison of options. Thanks for the chat: It's been useful.
Of course you need to quantify, otherwise you have no basis for a common measure.
How can anything be relative without a value being quantified?

The whole idea feels as wrong as can possibly be in terms of heritage anyway, people's responses or feelings towards a place like stonehenge could be described as 'irrational', 'passionate', 'spiritual' how do you go about constructing a basis upon which to measure that?

Evergreen Dazed wrote:
Of course you need to quantify, otherwise you have no basis for a common measure.
How can anything be relative without a value being quantified?
George said "all the most important values to humans" evergreen. You would need to quantify, but only the items that are relevant to the comparison, not "all". It's been an interesting thread and thanks for the observation.