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%ENJOYMENT VERSUS RESPONSIBILITY 781024
The relative emphasis that is placed upon personal
enjoyment versus personal responsibility flows from the
relative emphasis placed upon the importance of
individuals versus the importance of the community as a
whole. Does the individual exist to serve the community,
or does the community exist to facilitate the fulfillment
of the individuals?
If the individual exists to serve the community---
then anything which gets in the way of serving the
community is to be regarded with suspicion and probably
should be minimized. Personal enjoyment can often be a
source of diversion. A person who should be working to
meet communal needs may get diverted by activities which
occasion personal pleasure. Thus enjoyable activities
should be suspected, lest they get in the way of
individuals meeting their responsibilities to the
community.
The situation becomes perverse if it is assumed that
there is a conflict between meeting responsibilities to
the community and finding enjoyment which meets personal
needs. When such a conflict is assumed, there is a
situation of forced choice.
Scientists often assume such a force choice
situation. They assume that their students have a
responsibility to the profession and should dedicate their
time to acquiring technical professional skills; it being
assumed that enjoyment is likely to undermine fulfilling
that responsibility. Thus professionals who are
dedicated to the welfare of their profession as a source
of ultimate values---are professionals who are unlikely to
encourage their students to enjoy their professional
activities. The students are likely to get subtle but
powerful messages which say that their primary duty is to
acquire skills, and that enjoyment is at least secondary
--- if not suspect.
This set of traditional professional perceptions tend
to be counter-productive. Students who do not enjoy what
they do are not likely to be as creative, productive, or
supportive of their profession---as are students who find
personal fulfillment in their professional activities.
Students who do not enjoy what they are doing are likely
to regard their professional activities as a burden, and
seek to drop their burden because it violates their
personal integrity.
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