Then again what IS "authenticity"? It depends on your values. It really teeters on the fact that we all deep down share some common goal. Extend all human life? Increase all human happiness? Or maybe just increase my groups happiness? Or just increase my own? "Authenticity" is a buzzword that is more akin to "consistency". You don't flip flop between various values. But then there's the meta-flip flopping of values. Is your MAIN value the ability to BE flexible? That's you're main value and in pursuit of that, you flip flop between many different values as time goes on. To most, you'd appear as in-authentic. To yourself, you'd appear like you're following the same straight and narrow path you always have because you're considering the higher level value you're pursuing.
I'd say that authenticity is actually independent of values (maybe
you're saying that too).
A problem is that one could be an authentic mass murderer.
Bare authenticity alone is insufficient for moral good.
Indeed it may not even be necessary by some moral theories.
But, in saying I value authenticity, I am not claiming
to be moral or right.
I could very well be horribly wrong in everything I think about
technology - a monstrous throwback holding humanity from blessed
Utopia. Time will tell. Meanwhile "authenticity" remains a value I
aspire to.
