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Originally Posted by stopdog
I agree with this as a general statement - I would go a bit further -nothing matters except to the extent one places a value upon it. It is arbitrary and sometimes capricious.
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Yes. But all that means is that things can matter to other people, which is valid for them. I would never say that something that is important to someone else is generally unimportant, even if I find it completely pointless. (Actually, I would say that about
some things, but I am capable of accepting that other people have very different priorities and tastes from me.)
But since I do not matter, anything that I arbitrarily place a value on does not matter. Unless it also matters to someone else.