This-essay is   a8005021.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
==========================================================
                                       %BEING HUMAN 800502

     Subsidiary goals often get in the way of being human.
They get in the way both at an essential level and at  the
level of diversion of resources.  Some goal demand that we
be other than human because being human is not valued;  we
must be gods,  impersonal,  perfect, eternal,  omniscient,
self-controlled,   or  some other way of  being  which  is
fundamentally not human.  In such cases the affirmation of
the  goal  is  a fundamental disavowal of  being  human---
because being human is not respected.   People who disavow
being human  have  been  given no grounds  for  respecting
being  humans,   no respectable role-models of what  being
human means.  They base their judgment upon their personal
experience,   rather than upon  abstract  generalizations.
People who base their judgments  upon ideals  and abstract
generalizations tend not to respect the  judgment of those
who  disavow  being  human  on existential grounds.   They
cannot  communicate  with  each  other  as  human  beings,
because  none  of them know from role  models  how  to  be
human.  Role models are essential to humane learning.

     Some goals get in the way of being human by diverting
resources  which  are essential to  being  human---perhaps
such diversion is in the name of the fulfillment of  goals
intended  in technical ways to make it easier to be human.
We cannot be human by intensive technical  efforts to make
it easier to be  human.    We cannot make it easier to be.
Technology does not deal with the challenge of being.   We
learn  to  be  in meetings in  the eternal now  of  I-Thou
relationships,  not  in  the  determination  of  technical
inter-relationships through study and control.

     Being honestly human is the prerequisite to  behaving
in humane ways.  Being human is the prerequisite to humane
behavior,   not the same as humane behavior.   People  who
focus  only upon behavior tend to neglect  being,  and  so
neglect the prerequisite to humane behavior.  They tend to
undermine  people who seek to  be humane by being honestly
human.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
  www.essayz.com       Search for Integrity and Honesty        
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
==========================================================

Lines beginning with a percent sign are  KEYWORDS  for use
in ESSAY-System Searches.  Their terminal digits are dates
of writing in the format @yymmdd#, where @ =  a  means 99,
@ =  b  means 20, and # = is a within-date essay-count.

Links to date-adjacent essays are near  page top & bottom.

   
Find the following links by clicking on CENTER when CENTER
near  the top or bottom  of a web page of essayz.com
 
                    
               1. Go to HOME PAGE of essayz.com
            2. Find brief-essays via keywords
           3. Find brief-essay about ADDICTION
          4. Search-Helps related to ABOVE-LINK
 
            5. GoTo Action & Information Center
           6. Find Regular-Essays via Year/Month
          7. Find Regular-Essays via Word-Starts
              8. Find Regular-Essay about LOVE

This-essay is   a8005021.htm   which is available  at the
web-site   www.essayz.com.  These 5 lines echo top lines.
Previous-Essay      <== This-Essay ==>     Following-Essay
By-Months                By-Years                 By-Words
Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One