Patur Aval Assur,
If there is only a value to someone/something else then for all intents and purposes there is no value.
So you reject the concept of altruism entirely?
If the value is personal then I am willing to accept that we might not know what it is.
How would you know whether it was personal or not if you didn’t know what the value was?
$100 is better than $1. But you wouldn’t say that someone who takes $100 (legally) is a better person than someone who takes $1. Smarter, perhaps. But Better?
Smarter is not better than foolish?
If anything, the guy taking $100 is more “selfish” than the guy taking $1.
Why? An act is typically referred to as selfish when it benefits the actor at the expense of others.