No sir. As BananaBoy pointed out, there is no such thing as intrinsic value when taken in a vacuum. But the moment a context is given, which itself provides the frame of reference against which judgement/assessment can be made, the notion takes on real and practical meaning.
One might be tempted, for example, to say that oxygen has intrinsic value, but that would be an error, once again when taken
in vacuo. But when the context of human life is provided as the reference frame, then the intrinsic value of oxygen is readily discernible in the context of human life, along with the usual set of assumptions we tend to make about it, such as not being suicidal.
That would be a statistical figure, more or less.
I've seen houses that have zero value to me because I'd not live in them if you gave them to me, all else equal. Change the context and I many change my opinion.
Context is king.
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