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                        %RESPONSIBILITY FOR TRAGEDY 770802

     It  is tragic when people assume  responsibility  for
some tragedy which was occasioned by their faithfulness to
their  sense of responsibility.  When faithfulness to  our
highest values create disintegrative inhumane consequences
we  need  to question our highest value;  we need to avoid
reaffirming them  by   assuming  responsibility  for   the
inhumane consequences. The person who has messed things up
with the  best of intentions and the worst of perspectives
is  not  the proper person to  assume  responsibility  for
straightening things out.  The self-appointed rectifier is
likely to be a tragic character.  Tragedy is occasioned by
faithfulness to our highest values,   not  by  any lack of
dedication   or  application.    Terrible  things  may  be
occasioned by lack of dedication  and/or application---but
such terrible things are  not  tragic  unless they are the
results  of  actions which were motivated by  transcendent
values.

     The  technocratic   way   of   coping  occasions many
problems/dilemmas  in  the  technocratic  society.    When
dedication  to techniques is ultimate the technocrats  are
likely to  be "responsible" for many  tragedies---but they
should not  be  asked  to  assume responsibility for their
rectification.   There  are  no  techniques for correcting
situations messed up by using techniques  where techniques
are   inappropriate.     Such  tragedies  call   for   the
transcendence of the  use of  techniques,  not for renewed
dedication to old ways.

     Tragedies  should  occasion profound examinations  of
our  highest  values.   The recognition of  the  tragedies
suggests the perception  of values  which  transcend those
which directed the tragic behavior.   Tragic  consequences
of   faithfulness   to   high  values  calls   for   value
clarification and  decisions as to which values are  truly
transcendent.   Too often dedication to openness and  free
communication  is  relegated  secondary  status   and   so
occasions tragic consequences.

     Those people who are immersed  in  tragic  situations
need to seek insight from those people who are outside the
tragic  situation---else the tragedy  will be  perpetuated
through faithfulness  to  the values  which occasioned the
tragedy.  Consider Ireland, the Balkans, Israel, Vietnam.

                                                                                                                               
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