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%OBJECTIFIED EMOTIONS 780708
When an exclusively objectively oriented person is
moved by strong emotions, the emotions tend to be
objectified. The exclusively objectively oriented person
is not free to affirm subjective realities such as
emotions---yet cannot ignore them. The solution is often
to regard emotions in a way comparable to the way
objective reality is regarded. By collusion a group of
exclusively objectively oriented people may treat their
emotional responses to situations as objective reactions
caused by the situations---and hold those persons who were
responsible for the situations to be responsible for the
"objective" emotional reactions which were "caused" by the
situations. Since all realities are perceived to exist in
the objective domain in causal relationships---it is
logical to hold persons responsible for the personal
reactions which they cause. Thus it is logical for me to
hold other persons responsible for my emotional reactions
to their behavior. According to this objective analysis I
have the right to constrain other people's life style if
my awareness of it offends me---for their behavior causes
me objective grief. We should not be free to offend each
other! We have a responsibility to be considerate. They
should not do things which will get me upset!
For thousands of years responsible/respectable people
have found homosexual behavior to be objectionable.
Homosexual behavior on the part of deviant people causes
objectively verifiable emotional reactions in people who
conform to the one life style which God ordained for us.
God's way for us is clearly spelled out for us by the
writers of the Bible who, like us, were offended by
homosexual behavior. It is unthinkable to say that all of
us who have been offended by homosexual behavior on the
part of deviants have been unloving persons. We have done
our best to conform to the law! What more can be asked?
Political power-struggles over what constitutes an
emotionally inoffensive life-style will not get to the
root of our problem. To get to the root of our problem we
must learn to affirm both objective and subjective
realities in ways which are appropriate to their different
natures. Objectification of emotions and subjectification
of objects lay traps into which we all fall, and out of
which it is difficult to escape by objective analysis and
action.
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