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%SOCIAL VS OBJECTIVE REALITIES 801102
Some realities are created by social processes,
others exist apart from social processes. The swiss did
not decide to create the Alps Mountain, they did decide to
create a tradition of universal military service. The
mountains exist apart from their social processes; the
tradition continues because of their social processes. It
would be dishonest for them to act as if the mountains
existed because of their social processes. It would also
be dishonest for them to act as if universal military
service were something which could not be changed through
changing social processes.
Some social realities do violence to individual
members of a society, and some social realities may do
violence to all members of a society. In such cases it is
alienative to pretend that such violent social realities
are objective realities---or ordained by God---so as to
avoid the creative disturbances which would be involved in
changing such violent/alienative realities.
Objective laws regarding physical, chemical, and
basic biological processes tend to be realities which
societies cannot change. The higher up the scale of
processes towards those which we call personal and social,
the greater is the degree to which human choices play
roles in determining the exact course of events. It is
the wise society which recognizes in a realistic way which
are objective realities, and which are social realities.
Human institutions, life styles, religious, political
systems, economic systems, nations, taboos, collusions,
and traditions are clearly social realities. Societies
which pretend otherwise are not wise. When such realities
act to inhibit dialogue and understanding, they are
alienative, tending to violate the welfare of members of
the societies which create such evil realities. The
essence of evil is the generation of misunderstanding and
alienation. People are not ever essentially evil.
Exclusive dedication to alienative values and the
behaviors occasioned by such exclusive dedication is
essentially evil. The exclusive dedication to social
realities as if they were objective realities is very
likely to be evil. People who do not know the difference
between social and objective realities are likely to
behave in evil ways and to be involved in evil
relationships.
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