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Abstract
This article explores the nature of harms and benefits in the context of value analysis. A paradigm of values, drawn from neoclassical rhetorical theory, features “happiness” or “the good life” as a goal people strive to achieve through a series of subsystems: instrumental, access, and regulatory. Values interact within and among these subsystems, seeking congruency, and harms and benefits are related to the outcomes of these processes. The essay suggests ways to enhance congruency, and closes with suggestions to adapt the paradigm to forensic education.