You are saying that you are not open to new values which contradict your core values. Ultimately you might replace all but the one that is the most core, but never that one.
That’s more or less correct. To quote one of Eliezer’s works of ridiculous fanfiction, “A moral system has room for only one absolute commandment; if two unbreakable rules collide, one has to give way.”
If circumstances force my various priorities into conflict, some must give way to others, and if I value one thing more than anything else, I must be willing to sacrifice anything else for it. That doesn’t necessarily make it my only terminal value; I might have major parts of my social framework which ultimately reduce to service to another value, and they’d have to bend if they ever came into conflict with a more heavily weighted value.
That’s more or less correct. To quote one of Eliezer’s works of ridiculous fanfiction, “A moral system has room for only one absolute commandment; if two unbreakable rules collide, one has to give way.”
If circumstances force my various priorities into conflict, some must give way to others, and if I value one thing more than anything else, I must be willing to sacrifice anything else for it. That doesn’t necessarily make it my only terminal value; I might have major parts of my social framework which ultimately reduce to service to another value, and they’d have to bend if they ever came into conflict with a more heavily weighted value.