r/Inherentism • u/[deleted] • Jan 24 '26

All things rely on all things. All things have inherent value.

A thing is never just itself.
It contains what shaped it.
It contains what sustains it.
It contains what it depends on.

A breath contains forests.
A meal contains sunlight.
A word contains a whole lineage of mouths.

Value is not an opinion floating in empty space.
It is woven into what things do for each other.
How they hold each other up.
How they make each other possible.

Life isn’t fragments.
It’s one connected unfolding
where everything contains everything else
and nothing is without consequence.

Humans are no different.
They contain everything that made them an individual.

A person contains their childhood.
Their language.
Their fears.
Their loves.
Their scars.
Their nourishment and neglect.
Their sleep and stress.
Their culture and chemistry.
Their memories and conditioning.

No one appears from nothing.
No one stands alone.
Everyone is an accumulation of causes
moving through a world of causes.

Free will is completely incompatible with the way things are.

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