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     Specialists tend to try to avoid bias in  specialized
ways.    Many  technocrats try to avoid bias by  excluding
personal consideration from their efforts.  Others exclude
from  consideration  holistic insights which  can  not  be
analyzed.     Specialists  in  objectivity  exclude   from
consideration purely subjective insights.  Each specialist
is  sincerely trying to affirm the importance of  avoiding
bias,   and  attempts to do so by affirming  their  biased
tendency  towards specialized values.   Their best efforts
to  avoid  bias  are biased by their lack of  concern  for
balance.

     At   a  fundamental  level  bias  has  to   do   with
exclusivity,   with  an  effort  to narrow  the  focus  of
attention in such a way as to exclude important aspects of
a  whole from consideration.   The specialist is exclusive
in a way  which  affirms  the importance  of  the focus of
attention,  while ignoring that which is not the focus  of
attention.  It is thus absurd to try to avoid bias through
specialization.    No  speciality is so valuable  that  an
exclusive focus upon the speciality will avoid bias.

     Specialists  equate their specialty with  "goodness",
and  they also equate avoiding bias with "goodness".    If
"A" is equal to "goodness" and "B" is equal to "goodness",
the "A" is equal to "B".  By this logic they conclude that
their  specialty is equal to the avoidance of bias.   What
they forget is that a specialized search for "goodness" is
exclusive,   alienative,  excommunicative;  and  therefore
evil;   i.e.,   sinful.   The logic  sounds  strange  when
converted to:  by specialty is sinful, the absence of bias
is balance, therefore my specialty is the absence of bias.
for  the  word  "sinful"  any of the  words  "alienative",
"evil",   "excommunicative",   "elitist",   etc.   may  be
inserted.

     Bias  pertains  to  the  unbalanced  affirmation   of
positive  values.    We  will do  well  to  remember  that
positive  values  are the focus of the  motivations  which
occasion bias.  Bias is not occasioned by a willful desire
to   do   evil.    Bias  is  occasioned   by   specialized
(unbalanced)   efforts to affirm positive values,   values
such as objectivity, rule by law, explicitness,  accuracy,
certainty,   etc.    We will be biased if we  assume  that
biased people are evil and to be avoided.

                                                                                                                               
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