Are There Objective Values? or Do We Need to Create Our Own Values?

In this world of such diverse cultures and different life styles, it is obvious that there are many values that people have and live by. We all, as individuals, do not have our own values except for those of our “teachers” that have had influence on us and that have brought us up. Values have a great impact on the way people live, either in living a happy life or just keeping oneself occupied. There are no objective values for human beings because so many different values are learned through the teachings of society, culture, and religion. Although these different aspects may share similar values, human beings have free will to choose and to create their own values for life.

Most people are brought up with common values, and in most cases people are too scared to stray from the norms in fear of being what society considers different. People have always been scared to be alone so they have been accustomed to work together, for example, to create structural societies, which end up intertwining lots of values and believes together which goes into why many groups share same values. Those values become societies’ values as generations come and go. In the United States of America some major common objective values are to try making it in life, and trying to always move forward in life in order to be happy. Take education as an example, society has influence us with it values of striving for higher education so that more doors will open and then we will have the chance to be someone. That’s the way most people believe they will have a happy life. Those that don’t go on to higher education are made to feel left behind and lower in society. In most cases people let it get to them because they were taught to think that way and thus don’t end up enjoying life, all because of values people were brought up with. But even people that keep going for higher education and have had doors open for them and have become someone big still are not happy with their lives. Zarathustra...