This-essay is a7909171.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %NET EFFECT 790917 The propriety of an action should be judged on the basis of the net effect of the action, rather than upon whether a particular proscribed or prescribed effect follows. The degree to which other people's free-will decisions play a central role in the net effect should also be taken into consideration. Legalism finds it difficult to respect the importance of net effect and the role of free-will decisions by other people. It is not easy to develop a system which is sufficiently comprehensive to encompass the complexities of a holistic approach to the context and net effect of an action. It is much easier to focus upon whether or not a proscribed or prescribed element of behavior or effect was or was not associated with the action in question. It is easier to ignore the nature of the association than to try to give it just consideration. The net effect of taking the easier route is to occasion injustice which inhibits dialogue, mutual awareness, and mutual understanding. Taking the easy route occasions sin. Technical approaches to the propriety of an action tend to fail to be holistic enough to consider net effect, contextual factors, and the role of other people's free- will decisions. Technical approaches do not adequately consider the ownership of problems and the possibilities of people to leave problems to the people who own them, rather than to compulsively take on the burden of other people's problems. Personal approaches are essential to complement the technical approaches, but not to totally replace technical approaches. An effort to promote justice and open dialogue with only personal approaches is bound to fail because of the way in which power corrupts human behavior. To take power out of structured technical systems and place it all in the hands of unconstrained people will so corrupt the empower people that they will not behave justly and will not promote open dialogue. The net effect of trying to use one approach as the exclusively best approach is injustice and sin. Both technical and personal considerations can arrive at this conclusion. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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