They are not inherently valuable as rings , though . A diamong ring can make your life easier if you live on certain enviroments where it is in fact a big deal . shallow people live on shallow communities , shallow people stress about showing their wealth to somehow prove of maintain their worth to others , a shallow person might end up a relationship for not getting the appropiate ring , there is some twisted created value in there . so for that SO adquiring the right diamond ring becomes a neccesity . Value is always going to be relative , because value is a relative term . Is food valuable to someone who wants to die ? No . So you can ' t even say that food has objective value , because value always has to be placed on something . My point wasnt you being wrong , i actually agree that no one can say what has value or not , thats why i responded on the first place . The example of foodwatershelter was actually an attempt to avoid someone replying to me that those things are highly likely to have value to most of people in almost every possible scenario . Im not a native speaker so sometimes expressing myself while trying to predict the opposing responses i could problaby get and try to cover all my bases can be a bit overwhelming p