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 Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:58 am
Never Stop Dreaming...What do you judge the worth of a person by? Knowledge, kindness, or creativity? Or neither? o.O
Of That Beautiful Place..
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 3:06 am
Never Stop Dreaming...
I think that a person's worth can be based on their personality. Not exactly their kindness...just how they are. And how close they are to me.
Of That Beautiful Place..
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 3:18 am
Tea Panda O_0 Never Stop Dreaming...I think that a person's worth can be based on their personality. Not exactly their kindness...just how they are. And how close they are to me. Of That Beautiful Place.. I agree with you. As far as basing a person's worth on personality. I would say that the level of kindness displayed by said person is based on their personality. Personality appears to play a large role even in things like knowledge. Simply because the motivations for aspiring towards knowledge or creativity start with a persons individual personality.
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:25 am
I'd say the top three areas of human importance and worth by quantity are intelligence, creativity (these being on the same level), and personality (to a just slightly lesser extent).
On one hand, knowledge and creativity are what allow a human to give merit, meaning, and justification to his existence. For the ones that possess the greatest amount of these two traits can most easily and readily create, be, and improve their surroundings, socially, functionally, or in a large variety of other ways, depending on the area in which they possess the most intelligence or creativity/resourcefulness..
Personality is important, as this governs all interactions between beings. It is also less replaceable. In a sense, creativity cannot be learned, but it can be enhanced. Intelligence cannot be equaled, but it can be suggested or appear to exist in greater abundance with knowledge, which can be taught. Personality, however, is the person, itself. The one thing that is truly nontransferable and is a persons individuality, itself.
On a different tier is one thing that I am reticent to call morality, but I will. In this sense, I define morality as how one treats one's fellow human beings. Once a certain baseline of civility and humanity is reached, however, it existing in greater quality will not make for what is (in my mind) a better or more valuable human being.
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:35 pm
When looking at the "value" of a person to society, then I would have to agree with Josh; intelligence and creativity are the two most valuable assets to any person, but they don't always go hand in hand. While men like Einstein and Edison are excellent examples of people who have plenty of both, some of the most useful things in society are made by people who have Ambition and Motivation to supplement their creativity. Personality has very little to do with business, unfortunately, though Charisma does.
For instance, there's a man that my stepdad knows who has made millions by selling single-dose medication to vets for their animals- in ketchup packets! It's a simple idea, and it most certainly doesn't take the brainiest men and women of the country to come up with such a simple solution- in fact, their solutions tend to be a bit more overdone than those of the "simpletons."
Looking at it from a more personal aspect, however, personality and morality play a much larger role to me. They tell me what about each person are qualities that I do and don't like, and whether or not I believe that it would be worth my time and effort to maintain any kind of contact with them. While some things (like drug use) don't play a terribly large role in it, too much of anything can be severely detrimental to my opinion of them, though I can tolerate moderate amounts of just about anything.
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:09 pm
I believe that for the most part, a person's personality is the best thing to judge a person's worth by, but intelligence, creativity, and background are also very important. No, I am not being racist, but the fact that if you thought that says a lot. For instance, in the past, people in the past were judged by their skin, hair, and eye colors, which may warp one's personality, limit their knowledge, and therefore either enhance or limit one's creativity. There are many parts to ones personality, many things which may affect it, like race and surroundings. So one cannot be judged solely on one's personality, because their personality is really affected by their surroundings. Example: a kid sees his/her mom being beaten by his/her father, and may think that this is everyday, not realizing how horrible it is. This child may grow up almost unnaturally cruel, but we could only judge him/her by his personality, since we know nothing of his/her background. There is no obvious way to judge how valuable someone is, but personally, I think that the better their personality is, the more valuable they are. I don't think that I would be friends with someone who'd sacrifice their life to save me, or at least not until I scream at them, and nor would I be friends with an egoist. How a person values themself is also very important, because one will judge themself as valuable or not, and their personality, which will affect their thirst for knowledge, and may or may not affect their creativity, or at least how they show it. How one values oneself, and how one values other people is entirely different for other people.
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 1:18 am
I judge a person's worth on not only how they act but what they do. A person who is nice to others and also values themselves as a person is much more valuable then one who's only nice to others but has no self worth. I find myself respecting someone a lot more who is driven by something.
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:34 am
Hmm, the worth of a person?
This is kind of difficult for me, but I'll give my take on the subject.
Frist of all, I'm not sure I could measure worth on a set of merits like Intellegence or Creativity. Some people simply don't have amptitude for either. Sometimes they can increase a persons appeal, yes. Other times, not so much.
Worth in the person has to come from person themselves. As most of you have already put, I would judge someones worth based one their overall set of traits and actions.
Then again, I myself feel I'm sometimes not fit to judge someones worth (even though I do it without relising, I'm only human). Seeing someone as a good or a bad person is entirely subjective. A set traits that I find un-acceptible are in another persons eyes. Judging someones worth isn't only based on their actions, but also in your opionions of their actions.
So personally, I'm kinda reactive in my judgement of others. Should I judge people, well thats and arguement for a different thread.
Sorry if this came out a bit moronic and redundant. I Haven't long woken up.
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 12:21 am
You ask the worth of a person eh?
A person is the sum of their experience and perceptions. The worth of a person is who they are and how the choose to interact with society. I dislike many people but that does not make them any less worthy than I am. Those that have less worth in my eyes are those that commit horrible and despicable acts. I.E. murderers, rapists, child molesters.
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 12:08 am
the worth of a person
A man can not be judge by the color of its skin, by his clothes, his jewels, or his triumps, but only by his heart. A good man is better than a bad man. Justice is better than injustice. He who uses mercy is is superior to him who uses violence.
Even thought they call themselves kings, presidents and master of the world. We have but one Master the God that made us all. Only his truth is inmortal and in his truth all men are equal.
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 12:13 am
El Mio Cid the worth of a person A man can not be judge by the color of its skin, by his clothes, his jewels, or his triumps, but only by his heart. A good man is better than a bad man. Justice is better than injustice. He who uses mercy is is superior to him who uses violence. Even thought they call themselves kings, presidents and master of the world. We have but one Master the God that made us all. Only his truth is inmortal and in his truth all men are equal. ...Whoa dude thats deep. eek Is that a quote from somewhere?
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 12:19 am
Shanderaa El Mio Cid the worth of a person A man can not be judge by the color of its skin, by his clothes, his jewels, or his triumps, but only by his heart. A good man is better than a bad man. Justice is better than injustice. He who uses mercy is is superior to him who uses violence. Even thought they call themselves kings, presidents and master of the world. We have but one Master the God that made us all. Only his truth is inmortal and in his truth all men are equal. ...Whoa dude thats deep. eek Is that a quote from somewhere? it is from a song that can be found in the prince of Egypt I only tweak it a bit and wrapped it up
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 12:21 am
El Mio Cid Shanderaa El Mio Cid the worth of a person A man can not be judge by the color of its skin, by his clothes, his jewels, or his triumps, but only by his heart. A good man is better than a bad man. Justice is better than injustice. He who uses mercy is is superior to him who uses violence. Even thought they call themselves kings, presidents and master of the world. We have but one Master the God that made us all. Only his truth is inmortal and in his truth all men are equal. ...Whoa dude thats deep. eek Is that a quote from somewhere? it is from a song that can be found in the prince of Egypt I only tweak it a bit and wrapped it up Oh right! I knew that sounded familiar lol. sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 12:23 am
Shanderaa El Mio Cid Shanderaa El Mio Cid the worth of a person A man can not be judge by the color of its skin, by his clothes, his jewels, or his triumps, but only by his heart. A good man is better than a bad man. Justice is better than injustice. He who uses mercy is is superior to him who uses violence. Even thought they call themselves kings, presidents and master of the world. We have but one Master the God that made us all. Only his truth is inmortal and in his truth all men are equal. ...Whoa dude thats deep. eek Is that a quote from somewhere? it is from a song that can be found in the prince of Egypt I only tweak it a bit and wrapped it up Oh right! I knew that sounded familiar lol. sweatdrop well I over extended it because the only thing the song says is that you can not judge man with your mortal eyes, you must look thru heavens eyes, but that is all it mentions 3nodding
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 6:52 pm
Think of a person not as a person but as an animal, how do you judge them? If I have a dog do I judge it by how well it fetches a stick, how loudly it barks at trespassers, or by how happy it makes the children who see it? To judge the worth of a person one can think of many things, the chemical structure of the body, how much each individual element is worth when purchased in masses and to the math to determine the value of said human being, perhaps you might look at the organs and use the healthiness of say the lung to decide who is of more value the 50 year old women or the 22 year old with cancer. The reality of the question isn't how to determine but why. What value is there the human being you are appraising and why are you appraising them. Is it for friendship? Companionship? Reliability? Sacrifice? Oregon downer? Think about the situation of why the value of said person is in question before you consider there value. Think of a list of what you want or need from that person then judge them biased off how well the average human compares to them on your list. That is how you determine the value of a person.
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