Ignoring unpleasant, but important, value issues may become more difficult when they have been explicitly pointed to and highlighted.
As a result, this extreme anchor of the scale was used only for neutral photographs, whereas the opposite extreme was used to describe both pleasant and unpleasant pictures (arousing, value = 9).
In a storm of e-mails, calls and letters to local and state officials, they predicted unpleasant results: lower property values, more traffic and an increase in crime.
It is surely the most egregious and unnecessary form of coal extraction: thousands of acres of land are blown up and bulldozed away, as if the land itself is an unpleasant encumbrance without any value whatsoever.
And had Scott simply been an "it girl", a society wife or a lady who lunched, the recounting on radio and breakfast news yesterday morning of her death in terms of Jagger cancelling his Australian tour might have been more justified, if still a rather unpleasant metonymy for the value put on women's lives and roles.
We value what we love and it feels unpleasant when others appropriate that value and attach it to products, or ways of thinking.
Still, Mr. Updike could extract some value from his unpleasant city experiences.
But there is a difference between assuming that every situation necessarily involves an unpleasant trade-off between shareholder value maximization and societal benefit, and accepting that after much work to come up with a creative resolution of that tension and the failure to find such a resolution, a trade-off needs to be made.
The loss of value of intrinsically unpleasant events such as pain, suffering, regret, death itself, and the replacement of old metaphysical certainties with new relativity and doubt, of eternity with finiteness of time, are not counterbalanced with equivalent consolations.
Notice that the average PSL for the no-game approach appears quite unpleasant, as worse and worse PSL values are obtained increasing the number of active sensors.
