CENTER HOME-PAGE

FIRST     Previous    This-Report   Next-Report   ENDS
FIRST scr-x42.htm scr-x43.htm scr-x44.htm ENDS
The links above let you view this whole set of reports.




Sample ESSAY TEXT



                                %PATTERNS AS VALUES 810100
                                                          
     Any   pattern  which  significantly  influences   the
allocation  of a scarce resource is a value.   The pattern
may be:  a system of injunctions, a moral code, an ethical
system;   a   traditional pattern of  emotions,   thought,
desires, fears, behavior, etc., and intellectual system, a
belief  system,   an  institution,   a   sub-culture,    a
professional organization,  etc.   The manner of influence
may   be  deliberate  of  accidental,   overt  or  covert,
conscious or sub-conscious,  etc.  The allocation may take
place through private or public ways, political or market-
place   procedures,   or  in  any  other  way  which  sets
priorities   among   competing  claims  upon  the   scarce
resource.    The scarce resource may be in the private  or
the  public  domain,  it may or may not be  recognized  as
scarce,  it may be physical or non-physical,  objective or
subjective, inanimate or animate, etc.                    
                                                          
     Values  pertain to worth,   worthiness,   importance,
prioritization, exchangeability.                          
                                                          
                         (c) 1997 by Paul A. Smith in     
                      "Search for Integrity and Honesty"  
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)

BACK