Stability’s value is as a loss-prevention or expense-prevention resource: a status of being predictable or being resistant to immediate entropy in some way. It’s such a broadly applicable concept that its benefits are practically ubiquitous, and it adds all the types of value to various circumstances.
Stability of a situation, as in the expectation of not having to anticipate much change, allows you to conserve resources you might otherwise need to devote toward anticipation of contingencies; you can also thus experience the opposite of anxiety.
A medical patient who is stable is in less danger of dying; this kind of stability is a resource both to the patient’s continued existence (agency, experience, utility to society as a resource) and to their medical team who don’t need to expend resources to immediately and actively maintain the patient’s life medically.
Being seen as a stable person by the standards of a given group grants you esteem from that group, because you’re predictable and will not cost them sudden, unexpected loss of things of value such as their group’s esteem in the eyes of whichever society they esteem. A person being perceived by police as mentally stable and/or morally stable (in the sense of being unlikely to commit assault or other crimes) grants the police a sense that you’re predictable and thus not an immediate danger that needs to be violently subdued. In other words, you have the esteem due a member of the law-abiding community.
Stability of government gains a country more opportunities for international trade (resources) and gains its citizenry and businesses a credit rating (which is a resource based on how much one is esteemed as a reliable payer of debts by lenders).
Stable isotopes, which are not radioactive, are radiologically safe to touch or handle. However, this doesn’t mean it’s entirely safe! Lead is not safe to touch because even though it’s stable enough to be used for radioactive shielding, it has neurotoxic chemical effects. For low-energy purposes such as home-building, stable chemicals and elements are more valuable resources; for high-energy purposes, such as weapons or manufacturing, unstable chemicals or elements are more valuable resources.
The categories are good, but I feel that the list is incomplete. Where would you put, for example, stability?
Stability’s value is as a loss-prevention or expense-prevention resource: a status of being predictable or being resistant to immediate entropy in some way. It’s such a broadly applicable concept that its benefits are practically ubiquitous, and it adds all the types of value to various circumstances.
Stability of a situation, as in the expectation of not having to anticipate much change, allows you to conserve resources you might otherwise need to devote toward anticipation of contingencies; you can also thus experience the opposite of anxiety.
A medical patient who is stable is in less danger of dying; this kind of stability is a resource both to the patient’s continued existence (agency, experience, utility to society as a resource) and to their medical team who don’t need to expend resources to immediately and actively maintain the patient’s life medically.
Being seen as a stable person by the standards of a given group grants you esteem from that group, because you’re predictable and will not cost them sudden, unexpected loss of things of value such as their group’s esteem in the eyes of whichever society they esteem. A person being perceived by police as mentally stable and/or morally stable (in the sense of being unlikely to commit assault or other crimes) grants the police a sense that you’re predictable and thus not an immediate danger that needs to be violently subdued. In other words, you have the esteem due a member of the law-abiding community.
Stability of government gains a country more opportunities for international trade (resources) and gains its citizenry and businesses a credit rating (which is a resource based on how much one is esteemed as a reliable payer of debts by lenders).
Stable isotopes, which are not radioactive, are radiologically safe to touch or handle. However, this doesn’t mean it’s entirely safe! Lead is not safe to touch because even though it’s stable enough to be used for radioactive shielding, it has neurotoxic chemical effects. For low-energy purposes such as home-building, stable chemicals and elements are more valuable resources; for high-energy purposes, such as weapons or manufacturing, unstable chemicals or elements are more valuable resources.
That was a lovely example, thank you!