values depend on choice and they depend on them not just because you have to exercise reason and free will to produce human values, that s kind of a separate exercise, but if you take progress for example, which are talked about as a component of happiness, purpose is something that if it srp going o make you happy for you to pursue a purpose in life, it s something that you choose for p yourself. imagine if the government gives you a list of approved purposes. every market intervention, the ones that you are talking in the intro, the regulations on the tax code and everything else are little bits of force that the government exerts to keep people from making free choices and value requires that you use che itit. tucker: what you re saying is true, that all law, all regulation, all taxes, as i said in the intro to my question to you encourage or discourage human behavior and therefore