I like to think of myself as value-free, of being quite logical in thinking. Yet I realize that it is quite impossible to be value-free in the first place. Even the being value-free is a value in itself. Among others, I also believe in personal freedom (within rather liberal limits) and individuality.
With the guidance of those values, I am really quite incapable of value-free thought. The best I can do, perhaps, is to be quite relativistic and arbitrary, which would pretty much piss off anyone who believes that people should be consistent.
That would also be a problem in doing analyses, and perhaps the best thing I could do would be to state my stand early on, and perhaps list the values amongst the limitations to make it clear that I have not actually made a value-free judgment. Then again, that would beg the question of whether it is in fact possible to be truly value-free, and if there was actually any benefit to being so.
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