Poll of the day: virtue and merit.

[featherynscale]

Standard poll disclaimer: not all possible descriptions of human experience are represented by the answers given below. This is not hard science. It is not even social science. It is still a better-designed poll than half of the crap that Harris or Zogby put out.** Choose the best answer. If all answers suck equally, don't answer. Nobody's forcing you, darling.

[Poll #945207]

** Seriously, I took a Zogby poll the other day which asked the question "Can a woman be sexy if she is a size 14 or larger?", and the only two response options given were "Yes, sexy is about attitude, not appearance", and "No, appearance must come first". No option at all for people who thought that women who are size 14 or larger could actually have an appearance that was attractive. It was like answering "Have you stopped beating your wife?".

Comments

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

My personal opinion - and I know you weren't asking for that specifically, but I want to explain my answers, too! :) - is that a person's worth to me is in the interactions that I have with that person. If someone is willing to interact with me, to get to know me, they inherently have more worth, to me, than somebody who's going to blow me off/not give me the time of day. By the same token, someone who gives more interaction to me - and I'm not talking about time, specifically, this comes back to what I personally value and do not value in my life - they have more worth, to me, than someone who gives me just a small slice of their time/attention. This isn't an end-all, be-all, though. As in most everything in my life, I take this on a case-by-case basis.

Every human being has needs, and in that is the tendency to value the people who meet those needs (physical, psychological, emotional, etc) more than the people that don't. IMHO.

Probably selfish of me, too. But I'm learning to value myself first/more than I value others. Somebody has to. ;)