This-essay is a7612251.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %INDIVIDUALITY 761225 Love's call moves us to respond to people as individuals, not to instruct individuals to conform to normative behavior patterns. Love calls upon individuals to respond to societal needs while being concerned for the joint welfare of others, rather than in fulfillment of selfish demands which are insensitive and/or indifferent to other people's desires and needs. Individuals find their fulfillment and meaning in societal contexts. Society finds its security in respecting healthy individual differences. A society which seeks to guarantee its security by requiring its members to conform to some ideal form---will thereby plant the seed of frustration, rebellion and violent revolution. When individuals are denied the opportunity to fulfill their God-given humane instincts and talents, powerful forces will move to transform the agents of repression. Security is more a matter of affection than of technique. To seek security through techniques which deny the significance of affection is folly. To attempt to protect individuals through techniques which deny the significance of individual differences is likewise folly. Freedom can not be protected through repression. Individuality can not be fulfilled through conformity. No set of standards for humane behavior can promote the fulfillment of unique God- given humane instincts and talents. Creativity can not be promoted through conformity. Legalism is impotent in comparison to love's call. Those who hear and accept God's call respond in ways which transform the old into the new, the aged into youth, the dead into life. The rebellious individuals who seek to demand the fulfillment of their selfish desires (repressed by an insecure society) will find themselves alienated and frustrated for lack of a social context in which to accept meaning with suffering. Individuality is meaningless without a social context. Society is meaningless without unique individuals. Criteria for the determination of superiority undermine the perspectives essential to the fulfillment of individuals and society. Elites undermine community and so undermine the context within which they may accept meaning. Any search for a better set of criteria for determining who is better---is like a search for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Only fools take such searches seriously. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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