Neatras wrote:
What evidence or scriptural references can be used to amend falsehoods, discard the above statements, or potentially verify my musings?
I personally wouldn't point to any scriptural references, since anything I cherry picked would only coincidentally be in harmony with my views and not really support them at all.
Here are my thoughts on your ideological musings:
1. For every cultural value, there is an appropriate monetary policy.
I completely agree. However, I would be quick to point out that for some cultural values the appropriate monetary "policy" might actually be that no monetary values should be associated with certain cultural values. So as long as that option is understood and taken into consideration I see no problem with #1.
2. Contradictory values create complicated monetary policies that can potentially be exclusive or clashing with the opposing value.
I would suggest that this is a tautology that shouldn't need to be stated expressly.
3. If the appropriate monetary policy is matched to the ethics in question, then the following should be possible:
As I consider these keep in mind that the "appropriate monetary policy" may not be easily obtained or correctly recognized.
(a) An evaluation of existing ethical codes by examining the implemented monetary policies.
Yes, in theory this would be true given perfect ideologies. But once again care should be taken to be certain that the monetary policies that have been implemented are indeed "appropriate" for the existing ethical codes. If that is true, then reverse extrapolation may indeed be possible.
The danger here would obviously occur when the implemented monetary policies weren't truly borne of existence ethical codes. OR, to cover all the bases, the existing "ethical codes" may have not been genuinely ethical.
So there are many pitfalls to consider here.
(b) The prediction of future ethical codes by the current trend of monetary policy.
Possibly. Given a perfect system where the ethical codes are sound and consistent, and the monetary policy truly is appropriate for the ethical code, then this could potentially lead to the prediction what ethical codes should be for future activities.
Once again, this is wrought with danger if the system isn't already perfect to begin with. And few real systems are perfect. In the real world monetary systems are never based upon ethics.
So from that perspective none of this is realistic.
(c) A relatively agreeable ability to predict what monetary policies would arise given a set of desired ethical values.
Again, in a perfect system this type of predictability may be possible. But if the system is imperfect, then the predictions will also be imperfect.
In fact, your whole hypothetical is based upon the foundational ideal of an "
appropriate monetary system", don't lose sight of this extremely important foundational premise. And realize that in the real world it will almost never be true. Then you'll be ok. You can toss out all your idealistic conclusions above by simply realizing that they don't apply to real world monetary systems.