The existence of a negative value (disvalue) is itself a negative value.

Further essential interconnections apply with respect to a value's (disvalue's) existence or non-existence:

A disorder "of the heart" occurs whenever a person prefers a value of a lower rank to a higher rank, or a disvalue to a value.

Christianity "...turned every value into a disvalue, every truth into a lie... it created distress in order to eternalize itself."

Hartman holds that "the name (that one puts on a concept) sets the norm" so he would rejoin that a "Remote with too many buttons" is a disvalue.

One point in this regard is that while the value of free will may be thought sufficient to counterbalance minor evils, it is less obvious that it outweighs the disvalue of evils such as rape and murder.

But Mill may have meant something rather different, namely that, although all pleasures are, in themselves, and apart from their effects, good, and all pains, with a similar qualification, bad, they are pleasant and painful, and hence possessed of value or disvalue, in incommensurable ways.