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-A value judgement is an opinion derived from a belief system. Pointing something out as a "value judgement" often implies that either the statement in question was either inappropriate in the context (because in some situations a mere opinion is not enough, for example in a debate), that an opinion was not //needed// in the context, or that the underlying belief system leading to that opinion is flawed. Importantly, it's a value //judgement// because it is finite. In the line of thinking, the judgement is always the end result and all consideration ends along with it. In the context of a conversation, this is often premature.
+A value judgement is an opinion derived from a belief system. Pointing something out as a "value judgement" often implies that either the statement in question was either inappropriate in the context (because in some situations a mere opinion is not enough, for example in a debate), that an opinion was not //needed// in the context, or that the underlying belief system leading to that opinion is flawed. A value judgement categorizes something as "good" or "bad", "right" or "wrong", which is often problematic. Most conversations aren't talking about this((More often than not a conversation is meant to talk about //why// a thing is right or wrong, not //that it is//.)) and with the depth of the conversation, such a judgement is often too one- or two-dimensional to be reasonably useful in a discussion. For example, I can say that [[salad]] is "disgusting", which judges salad as a value, but this has no bearing on how we should actually think about salad (healthy).
 ====== Value Judgements in modern Philosophy ======