Are genetics some kind of source of value? Is a mindless process that only cares about survival ultimately, that would endlessly torture things just to make more and more copies of stronger and stronger(but not necessarily more ethical, or more in touch with the truth) beings, the thing to look to when thinking about a sense of worth? If you look at what makes men and women and even children insecure, you'll see it just taken for granted. "I don't look right physically" "I don't act in the right way" . The genes can sometimes be right-- maybe you'll find someone who does something actually good, attractive. But they'll only ever be right by accident. To actually be right, the reasons you come up with have to truly make sense. Does "What the mindless process values must be valuable, and we should base our worth on it" make even the slightest bit of sense?
The entire basis of most human cultures is food & fuck.
There is no magic. Nothing to reveal. No noble truth or deep secrets.
Only what make tummy yummy and weewee feel heehee.
Nature is absolutely indifferent and as you say it's a mindless process.
At some point along this torturous chain there were pro-social genetics that helped some groups weather out some heinous times. For whatever reason we think of these as high-minded virtues and that there is some kind of moral code inherent to reality.
The reality is much more like a dispassionate computer algorithm:
face look good, body look good and strong
--> genital tingle
press genital together feel very good
--> baby pop out
baby screaming, annoying, helpless shitting everywhere
--> activate 'nurture' instincts, baby suddenly cute aww, what a miracle
Food is another strong experiential driver too of course. Hunger owwie, food yummy etc.
There is no high-minded philosophy shit, that is humans following the same low-minded shit that created these other base instincts, from genetic sources causing certain neuronal networks, emotional qualia and so forth.
Part of the process is WHAT makes 'face look good, body look good' and WHAT 'taste good' and so on aligning with qualities like you state: physical strength, ethics, anxieties, whatever it may be.
There is a lot of mindless fucking that ensues. Whatever traits just happen to survive whatever particular environment, that is 'good.'
Right now in the dominant human culture, there are just popular looks for males & females that get the nervous systems pumping and those are actually what the cultures find 'worthy'.
So if you do not look like that, you are not worthy, as worthy is just an arbitrary concept that changes with natural pressures. Period. Nature is that simple. It does not care.
And yet these sober neurotypical pro-life hyper-breeders criticize drug addicts as low-minded low-status scum. Even though their entire life is just hedonically chasing highs. The natural addictions and appeals of sloppy foods and genital slimes. Fucking hypocrites.