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Many time our behavior is directed towards seeking
our own vindication. We often want to prove that we were
right in a position taken, a decision, an action, an
attitude, etc. Vindication is often not genuinely
helpful, even though it may satisfy a narrow personal
desire. Such a desire tends to be a desire for security
though to be achievable through vindication. The
satisfaction of vindication is felt to hold a promise of
security and well-being, even though it is likely to
generate alienation on the part of those who lose out in
the vindication process. Such alienation generates the
opposite of the sought for security.
When the search for truth, justice, righteousness,
power, piety, fairness, etc. are undergirded by a desire
for vindication, the search is likely to be corrupted---
even though apparently successful. The motives tend to
create the meaning of the search and its fruits, even
though the objective results do not appear to be affected.
Vindication is sought for subjective reasons and the
consequences of the seeking are fundamentally
subjective---although often represented as being objective
in nature.
Vindication is often an objective attempt to fix a
subjective situation. The impropriety of the mode of
approach tends to doom the effort from the beginning. The
search for understanding and control tend to exacerbate
the original subjective situation, rather than to fix it.
Skill and sophistication in objective procedure will not
transcend the impropriety---even if escalated to the level
of nuclear war or psychological war.
Vindication is a poor substitute for what love has to
offer, but love can not be obtained on our own terms---
while apparently vindication is available on our own
terms. Vindication is sought by those who have not known
love, confused about the nature of love, or fearful to
risk being transformed by love.
The objective fruits of vindication may be enjoyed
without the poisonous effects of the motives of
vindication. The destructive aspects of vindication
originate in the subjective motivation, not in the
objective goal.
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