Essay - Personal Values Development It's Hard to Put One's Finger on...

Personal Values Development

***** hard to put one's finger on the precise moment that a particular piling in the c*****struction of ***** personal value system was driven home. But it is, of course, possible to take the aggregate experiences ***** one's life to date, and, in hindsight, construct a fairly accurate blueprint of the *****ion of one's personal *****s system. At ***** very least, examining how that system ***** built can lead one to correct any 'flaws in the design,' that is, construct a more successful *****rgument for any particular belief that might seem out of place or in danger of falling down in the face of some onslaught; public op*****ion, current fashions in ethics and so on.

A f*****d that, in exam*****ing my own *****, I cannot escape the facts of my birth, ***** *****y had an impact ***** what I came to believe ***** value.

***** was b*****n in California, 44 years ago. That makes puts me at the tail end of the Baby Boom. I went ***** school with crowds of other children. Schools were still being built ***** ***** alarming rate when I was born, although that slowed before I graduated from high school. The result of that was, however, that we all *****ed to be competing for the same things; sports awards, academic awards, even attention from teachers who saw themselves as overworked and underpaid at that time. ***** have no doubt ***** the experience of intense competition in enormous crowds of peers, compared to all of previous human civilization, made an impression on me. While I admit one could go two ways—in***** the concept that what was *****od ***** the mass ***** o*****rs was best, or into the ***** that ***** individual ***** paramount—***** chose the latter.

***** that attitude was set, it was fairly inevitable, at ***** to me, that I would find supp*****ting o*****r ***** values to be first and foremost my intention in almost everyth*****g I do.

And, as I studied two things, U.S. government ***** entrepreneurship, I began to ***** more firmly believe that the rights of the individual are ***** paramount ethical principle.

The American Constitution and, especially, the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments to the Constitution) give great *****ight to the ***** of individuals. Although I ***** say for certain on ***** date in ***** life ***** began to hold any ***** amendment to be ***** self-evident as the Founding Fathers considered the rights guaranteed by the ***** ***** be, in retrospect, it is clear that I have always ********** a true believer in the First Amendment, and support it completely ***** both my ***** ***** and my business.

The ***** Amendment states:

***** shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; ***** abridging the free*****m of speech, or of ***** press; ***** the right of the people peaceably to *****semble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

As the owner of three ***** businesses (*****