Strix only partially paid attention to Fisher and Wayland talking about the degeneration of martial arts over time, though since Strix had picked up on using Madison as an example, as well, he ended up throwing an apologetic look of his own in her direction. When Rory spoke again, he turned his focus back to him, listening and finally humming before speaking up.
"Honestly, the only value we each have the only value I have, is the value I ascribe to myself. We all have different views, we all look at a person and put a certain value on them friend, foe, he's hotter than me, she's more talented than I but only I can really decide what value I have for myself. A person who thinks they are worthless will give themselves a very low value, think nothing they accomplish has a worth, even if they are truly a genius at what they do and people continue to praise them. 'Oh, they're just being polite,' they might say, but not believe them because they also don't put value on what others say." Strix rubbed the back of his neck, then he shrugged. "Is it an unbiased value we put on ourselves? For the most part, probably not. People tend to have a certain few of themselves that is very hard to change without definite proof that they do something great or something terribly wrong."
He wasn't sure if he had picked up correctly what Rory had meant to ask with his question, but it was still his view.
There was always a way to improve yourself, but why care particularly whether person x believed him to be hot or not. We'll see if they'd care about any level of hotness in a person when they were stuck somewhere and needed a car fixed, for example.
"Personally, I think I'll just take the value I place on myself over what any random stranger or person would give me. I'm not in a place where I really need to worry about what people think my value would be. Maybe if I'd be a politician and was out to win voters over, then I might think differently about it."