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Question of the Month

What Is The Most Fundamental Value?

Our readers give their thoughts on values, each winning a valuable, if random, book.

Is this a trick question? Obviously the answer is love. There’s much to be said for courage, empathy, faith, honesty, industriousness, loyalty, tolerance, wisdom, and other values; but these values are secondary to love and are expressed best when in service to it. Indeed when they are not in service to love, such values become undesirable. German soldiers often fought for the Nazi regime with great courage. Heroin dealers may be very industrious.

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