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%SCIENCE CLASS AVERSION INTEGRITY+790512
%FEAR FAIL COLLUSION VIOLENCE VALUE 790512
Students tend to try to avoid classes which violate
their integrity. Few healthy people deliberately choose
to put themselves in situations where they will be the
victims of violence. Situations which violate your
integrity are violent. Situations which require you to
pretend to be other than what you are---promote dishonesty
on everybody's part and so require everybody to violate
each other's integrity. Such violence is characteristic
of collusive games of mutual self deception. Healthy
people seek to avoid participating in such violent games.
Scientists often participate in violent games of
mutual self deception: Pretending that there is only one
real way to perceive reality and so only one real reality.
Pretending that analytic, objective, impersonal
perceptions are more basic and free of bias; than are
holistic, subjective, personal perceptions. Pretending
that their way is the basis for understanding other ways,
but not vice versa. Few healthy students care to play
such violent and pretentious games, and so avoid
situations in which success depends upon playing such
violent games. Healthy students seek to be honest with
themselves and others, and so seek to avoid dishonest
people who are disturbed by honest perceptive students.
They know that once you have lost your integrity---you
have lost your self, your soul. They are unwilling to
sell their soul for any short term advantage, to acquire
any technique.
Students often do not enjoy science classes because
in science classes they are not free to be themselves, to
be whole persons. They do not feel free to question the
basic assumptions upon which scientists base their whole
system. They do not see scientists are being interested
in the history, philosophy, theology, and biases of
scientists' activities. Since scientists are rarely as
interested in students as persons---as they are in the
content of their specialties---students find little reason
to be interested in either scientists as persons or in the
content of their specialties. When scientists put their
specialties ahead of students as persons, the students in
self defense feel that they must put their integrity ahead
of becoming familiar with science and scientists. It is
dangerous to become familiar with people who value non-
personal patterns more than they value personal
relationships.
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