Do You Agree or Disagree?

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Value is not solely the overcoming of o entrope. It also has to have its implications for human flourishing. A best example, the vaccine aganst against coved might have taken fewer hours than it took to organize the opening ceremony of alympics. But just at some level, that's true. And i don't think they're equally valuable. I don't think the chinese the opening ceremonies were valuable. So i think that some curious, do you agree or disagree?

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