I find calling “allowing your other values to be edited by others” a value is a bit forced—it’s a feature of human brains, but if I were to model my mind as an agent with values, I’m not sure I’d list that among the values.
But it’s not simply a hardwired feature either, since if you gave most people the option of self-modifying away that feature, they wouldn’t accept. Perhaps another way to think about it is that we value our humanity (humanness) and allowing our values to be changed (to some extent) by others around us is a part of that.
But it’s not simply a hardwired feature either, since if you gave most people the option of self-modifying away that feature, they wouldn’t accept. Perhaps another way to think about it is that we value our humanity (humanness) and allowing our values to be changed (to some extent) by others around us is a part of that.