Tribes
Not all values are ‘good’ – or rather, they are not automatically good for everyone. It may be that within one particular tribe (say, the white tribe or Republican tribe) values like respect, compassion and fairness are upheld. But all living systems, including social systems, are nested. This means that for values to be truly ‘good’, they must be positive (or at least benign) not only at the level where they are being applied (individual tribes like organisation, race, or party), but also for the larger systems they belong to and interact with (enveloping tribes like community, city, or nature).
— Wayne Visser
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