An assessment of something as good or bad in terms of one's standards or priorities.
价值判断（指按个人标准或轻重缓急对事物作出好或坏的判断）
it is a value judgement which a government is entitled to make
mass nounthe specification of this standard is pure value judgement
Example sentencesExamples
I also question the wisdom of the value judgement that a person is only worthwhile if they work.
I enjoyed looking into other people's baskets and trying to guess what their home life was like… usually ending up with a value judgment on someone's wealth by the items they buy.
Pryor: ‘We made a value judgment and changed our plan and went another weekend.’
Although the term underfunding is essentially a value judgment, there is evidence that UK spending is lower (as a proportion of gross domestic product) than that of other countries we like to compare ourselves with.
‘In my view the Committee should assess the evidence overall and make a proper value judgment on the whole of that evidence’.
The assessment requires the judge to make a value judgment.
You spot somebody from a distance and, within a split second, you have made a value judgment about them.
You'll have to make a value judgment in those cases.
I think you're basing that argument on a paternalistic value judgment about the merits of smoking, though.
I am expressing an opinion, a value judgement, which is not subject to the law.
Cost effectiveness is concerned with additional costs for additional units of benefit; it requires a value judgment about whether additional spending to obtain additional benefits is worth while.
Of course, these people that think I'm wonderful for going out to work, or driving a car are making a value judgement about my existance.
Now of course, there's a clear value judgement there, and one that is not necessarily correct.
We have to make a best value judgment based on the information made available to us.
Second, the notion that members of a group are entitled to preferences due to past injustices is a value judgment that anyone can question.
When weighing all these issues, ethical as well as health and social, it seems clear that any decision contains a value judgment.
In any debate on balancing the various and sometimes conflicting imperatives of the range of human rights, at some point a value judgment has to be made.
I hope you see I am talking about practicalities here and not offering a value judgement as such.
Applied to behavior, especially sexual behavior, the disease label combines a description with a covert value judgment.
Ultimately, the decision about whether a given action is ethical or not will rely on a value judgement, a decision as much based on internal, personal values as on external, objective rules for what is important or right.