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                             %MORALITY AND LEGALISM 770201

     Morality  defines the boundaries of the playing field
of  love,   not the specific plays which are  required  or
forbidden  in specific situations.  In  contrast  legalism
focuses  upon the specific plays.  The destructiveness  of
legalism  originates  in the inadequacy of the  system  of
requirements/prohibitions  in relationship to the  variety
of  unique  humane  relationships which  are  possible  to
fulfill  in love.   Legalism cannot creatively  anticipate
all  the possible expressions of love in unique situations
and  so  cannot prescribe/forbid behavior in a universally
helpful way.

     As  an  expression of technocratic  concern  legalism
tends towards  prescriptions regarding objective behavior,
rather than towards helpful  insights  regarding and role-
modeling of the possible range of propriety  in meaningful
humane relationships which are characterized by subjective
knowledge,  as  much  as  by objective  acts.    Objective
analysis cannot provide  the insights or role models which
people need as support for living  lives of love;  because
love is not  essentially objective.   The focus of love is
subjects, not objects; therefore the essence of love is in
part subjective rather than just objective.

     Because  morality tends towards objective statements,
it  can only define the boundaries of the playing field of
love,   rather than prescribe the proper relationships for
given  situations.  Individuals cannot helpfully be  given
loving-orders   ---   specifying  which  relationships  to
realize  and  which  to  suppress.   Loving  relationships
transcend the participants and  so individual participants
cannot   meaningfully   be  held   responsible   for   the
relationships which  realize  them.    Morality thus  must
respect  the transcendent  role of human relationships ---
and   not  attempt  to   prescribe  or  forbid  subjective
realizations which individuals can not objectively control
in  any  meaningful  way.   Morality can only make  rather
broad   statements   about  the   quality  of   meaningful
relationships,   and  help individuals  recognize the more
likely perversions of love in  games  people  play off the
playing  field  of  love. Helpful morality thus recognizes
that the essence of the game is not objective,  and offers
objective in becoming  aware  of  destructive  perversions
within subjective relationships.

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