What are your core values? Writing a paper, need data.

[sixfinger88]

I'm writing a paper on non-religious communities in the united states as a hybrid or pluralist culture, and I was hoping the community here might like to help me generate some data:

What would you consider to be your top 5 or 10 values (if you had to boil it down to a simple set of concepts such as reason, discourse, tolerance, equality, respect etc.)? What is your rubric for interacting with the rest of humanity?

[Whitney]

Hi Six, welcome to the forum.  Would you mind telling us what class this paper is for?  We get quite a few similar inquiries yet  rarely get much background information...we are a very curious group.  Might I suggest also approaching www.meetup.com atheist groups in your area so you can sit with a group of atheists to discuss these topics for your paper.  I think meeting face to face would give you a better perception of our values.

[Will]

Core values? Equality, peace, honesty, humility. freedom, understanding, integrity, curiosity, wisdom, and growth. Yes, I think that covers it. #11, of course, would be the ladies. Will loves the ladies.

[sixfinger88]

to clarify-

i'm an athiest myself, so i have a pretty good idea of these values. the paper is for a pseudo-ethnography class, entitled "Hybrid Cultures- Blended Identity in American Culture". i'm also doing other field research (in person), but for this particular aspect of the paper i really just need a number of people who can give me a brief list clearly stating 5 or 10 concrete principles.

[Hitsumei]

Love, charity, honesty, empathy, peace, justice, freedom, equality, feminism, and happiness.

[templeboy]

Without looking at anyone elses responses:

[spoiler:21br3uwf]Fairness, justice, accountability, rationality, empiricism, assertiveness, holisticity[/spoiler:21br3uwf]

[curiosityandthecat]

Discourse, curiosity, congeniality, altruism (attempted, anyway), and love (in the Freirian sense).

(Don't let Will fool you; he might love the ladies, but you should see the number of restraining orders he has against him.    )

My rubric for interacting with the rest of humanity... hmm... that one's a bit trickier. In short, golden rule. In practice, I tend to keep people around me from whom I can learn things. Once I feel I've learned all I can from them, I tend to grow distant. People are sources of entertainment and information for me, so that influences my rubric to no small degree.

[adimagejim]

Honesty. Compassion. Friendliness. Openness. Freedom.

Jim

[AlphaBitch]

Truth, equality, justice, honesty, reason, understanding, compassion, cooperation (cooperative ability)

[Whitney]

In no particular order:  love, honesty, family, friends, freedom, knowledge

[AlP]

My position is that values do not exist. I (as a self) do not exist. What exists is a human animal in a physical world. Though I accept values and "I" as arbitrary words or concepts. According to my concept of possession, only what exists can be possessed. That said, there are value concepts available to me. I tried for a moment to think which were more important. Off the top of my head, freedom of action and prevention of harm are important to me at the moment.

[McQ]

Hello, and welcome, even if it's just for the purposes of a survey.

Guiding principles or values for me, in no particular order:

Individual Freedom
Equity
Compassion for others (the toughest one for me to live up to)
Peace
Justice
Empathy
Truth
Altruism
Charity
Happiness

[Tanker]

I'll quote the Army's 7 core values, which even though I'm no longer in still hold pretty true.

Loyalty
Duty
Respect
Selfless Service
Honor
Integrity
Personal Courage

(Which not so coincidentaly makes the acronym L.D.R.S.H.I.P or leadership)

[PipeBox]

empathy, freedom, willingness to learn and reason.  I think all the rest of me stems from that, though there's a sizeable component of laziness.  Though that's not a value.  More of a goal.  

[RJMooreII]

What would you consider to be your top 5 or 10 values (if you had to boil it down to a simple set of concepts such as reason, discourse, tolerance, equality, respect etc.)?

1. Personal satisfaction, broadly conceived.  This subsumes all other values.
2. Power, broadly conceived.  This is the means by which I attain personal satisfaction.
3. Logic
4. Autonomy
5. Security

What is your rubric for interacting with the rest of humanity?

How I operate depends on the circumstances.  But my general rules of thumb are conflict avoidance, cooperation or coordination, assertiveness and critical alertness.