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1.5.8.2 Valuing LoveVersion 1.0 October 2022                            (Previous Version) We choose to value Love. Some may prefer to say they value Compassion.  This means that we choose those actions that we expect will minimize suffering or harm and maximize happiness or wellbeing.  Valuing Love or Compassion means we commit to choosing the appropriate courses of action ourselves. We also want other people and organizations to make similar choices (mutates mutandis). We accept that individuals will have stronger emotional attachments to those they are close to – almost by definition – but large organizations don't have the same kind of emotional attachments.  The organization does not feel love the way people do.  Nevertheless the corporate decisions made by large organizations, the decisions made by the individuals representing the organization on its behalf, should reflect valuing Love, meaning that those decisions will lead to actions that are expected to minimize suffering or harm and maximize happiness or wellbeing.  This is part of corporate responsibility. It is difficult to define precisely what it is that this Love promotes or discourages, which is why our descriptions on this are not very precise. We choose to minimize harm, or minimize suffering, and to maximize well-being or happiness. Each of these components can be criticized if we value them alone, so we are currently suggesting that we need to keep all these aspects in mind when making day to day ethical choices. We discuss this further in subsection 1.5.8.5. 1.5.8.2 We choose to value Love, or as some would say, Compassion, meaning in general that we choose those actions that we expect will promote happiness or wellbeing and minimize harm and suffering, and we strongly encourage other people and all organizations to make similar ethical choices. more (later) In Chapter 1.1 on Epistemology, we clarified the nature of choice, especially in section 1.1.4. We feel as though we are making a real choice, and we may encourage others to make the same choice. But we are not here relying on the choice actually being made freely, or that we have free will, only that we in fact hold beliefs, however tentatively or consciously, that alternative actions are conceivable (whether actually possible or not), and we do in fact make choices (or choices are made, perhaps by us), whether they are caused, or random or freely chosen, to go one way or the other, or to do nothing.
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