What Do You Believe, Think, Value?

Recently, actually two days ago, my two roommates and I got into an argument with our third roommate about why her brother and six other friends could not stay in our small apartment.  It began with her asking us if her brother and two or three friends could stay with us for the weekend which was fine, but then she proceeded to tell us, not ask us, that it would be seven of them.  We calmly tried to discuss this with her and explain to her that this is a group decision, and that it was three people, who were not comfortable with seven strangers staying in their home, against one.  She somehow did not understand this.  I believe this was a conflict on Kaufer's level 4, "hold conflicting local values."  She claimed that they had no where else to stay and if they didn't come, it was going to affect her well-being in her sorority.  My three roommates and I, the "God damn independents" that we are, were not really too concerned with that fact, and argued that if it was that important to her, they would find different arrangements for the other half of the guests.  She claimed we were being selfish, and if the situation was the other way around, she would do it for us.  We claimed she's just upset because she's not getting her way, and that we would never expect something like this to be okay with her if it was the other way around. In the end, we told her it wasn't happening, because it was three values against one different value.

In "The Disappearing Republicans" from The New Yorker, it is obvious that the author is a liberal, or at least anti-Republican.  I believe it poses both a "simulation" and real "ethical deliberation."  Defeated Republicans not maintaining such a dominant political persona is true in some Republicans, but some in not.  But his biased opinions about all Democrats remaining on the scene would portray the simulation, instead of unbiased fact.

I think the different politicians he names act as "value" terms and ideographs.  Ronald Reagan represents good fortune and economical progress, Barack Obama represents change and progression, and so on. When discussing politics, especially successful presidents, an audience pairs a value with that president from something he accomplished during his presidency.