A person’s worth nowadays seems to be judged according to social status and material possessions. Old-fashioned values, such as honour, kindness and trust, no longer seem important. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?

Every person is judged by others in a society based on certain parameters and those parameters change from time to time. While it is true that some of them remain

gold standard

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the gold standard

, others get replaced by modern values. I agree with the point that these days, those metrics are more hedonistic, but would differ on the grounds that they have not entirely replaced historical values. Since time immemorial, when most of the humanity were hunter gatherers,

valor

the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle)

valour

, trustworthiness, and pride used to be the measures of someone's greatness, justifiably. As they were the traits that are required to work in a group and lead others into better situations, they are held

with

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in

high regard.

In addition

to these, integrity,

sense

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a sense

of solidarity and responsibility were considered as well for

appraising

come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

oppressing

an individual.

However

, with the changes in lifestyle and societal structure, some of these have been replaced with others. In the recent times, our lifestyle is filled with materialistic needs. Every activity in our life is surrounded by either using those assets or working towards acquiring those, like cars, houses or electronic gadgets.

Hence

, success and most importantly worth is measured along these lines. The reason for

this

is, one's position of authority and wealth would help one in possessing physical luxuries and

hence

those are considered as

note worthy

worthy of notice

noteworthy

. Age old beliefs like principles, kindness are regarded as weakness, which is forcing many to abandon these values.

However

, not all hope is lost. There is still some place, at times, for these

gentleman

Suggestion

gentlemen

like traits. Even in

this

wealth & power

centered

being or placed in the center

centred

world, people often realize worth of the old school values, either by

genetical

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genetic

genetically

hard wiring or due to an

epiphony

a divine manifestation

epiphany

. A recent example is the emotional outburst for the fallen special forces heroes in a battle, who gave their life protecting innocent citizens. Hardly any of those were above middle class, yet they received the adulations of millions. Not only

this

helped the real heroes, but

also

stirred a debate on how to measure an individual's worth. In conclusion, I believe that with changing times,

caliber

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the calibre

calibre

of gentlemen would be judged by different metrics but the core values remain same.