Values are created absolutely by human attachment, not discovered

Evidence

Let men attach value to words, forms, colors, mathematical theorems, physical laws, and athletic prowess; let them accord value to one another in love and friendship, and the objects, the events, and the men immediately have this value; they have it absolutely. It is possible that a man may refuse to love anything on earth; he will prove this refusal and he will carry it out by suicide. If he lives, the reason is that, whatever he may say, there still remains in him some attachment to existence; his life will be commensurate with this attachment; it will justify itself to the extent that it genuinely justifies the world. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 147

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Directly answers the reader’s question about whether ‘willing my freedom requires willing yours’ is derived — here the derivation is substantive: because values are conferred by mutual attachment, each man’s justification of existence involves valuing others.
• ADDENDUM: The claim that men ‘accord value to one another in love and friendship’ and objective value follows resonates with the sacrificial structure discussed in the sacrifice article — valuing others as the ground of one’s own justification.