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%CARING ABOUT PERSONS/ROLES 791204
To care for a person is different from caring for the
role which the person is cast in. We may relate to a
person's role without relating to the person. We may be
interested in the role for our own personal reasons, but
not be interested in the other person as a person apart
from the role the other person is in. Roles are not
persons, and persons are often offended when they are
regarded only in terms of the role in which they are cast.
It is not very fulfilling to be desired only because of
the role in which you are cast. It is more meaningful to
be desired as a person quite apart from any temporary role
in which one finds oneself. There is a sense of
insecurity associated with an identity which depends upon
which role one is cast in, because society may without
consultation cast you in a different role and so
arbitrarily change your identity if your identity depends
only upon your role.
If the identity of person depends only upon behavior,
then a person's identity will tend to depend upon the role
which the person plays, quite apart from the person's
hidden desires, yearnings, feelings, fears, etc.
Behaviorists thus tend to define persons in terms of
roles, and do not consider hidden subjective realities to
be important. Taboos, collusions, traditions, and the
like may prompt people to hide important aspects of
themselves --- out of fear. Such hidden aspects are then
considered unimportant by narrow-minded behaviorists who
are prone to consider only objective behavior to be
important. Realities which insensitive people do not
perceive can not be objective realities, because universal
consensus can not be achieved about such realities. Thus
personal realities which are hidden from insensitive
persons can not become objective realities, and can not be
important to behaviorists. Under such circumstances
mutual awareness and mutual understanding are impossible,
and sophisticated gathering of data and analysis of then
are "meaningless".
It is impossible to care intimately about a person
unless the person can be perceived as existing
independently of the present role which the person is cast
in. If there is no person independent of the role being
played, then personal intimacy is virtually impossible.
Only role playing is possible if only roles exist. Often
roles play games with each other, because their motives
are hidden.
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