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%CONFUSION ABOUT MORALITY 820326
Much alienation originates in confusion about
morality. Some people see morality in terms of whether or
not a specific set of do's and don'ts are honored. Other
people see morality in terms of whether or not people seek
to open, keep open, and deepen channels of communication.
The first group emphasize laws and tends to be legalistic.
The second group emphasize honest dialogue and tends to be
lovers.
The legalist group believes in obedience and tends to
become the victim of charismatic leaders and institutions.
The Medieval Roman Catholic Church, Hitler, the Nazi
Government, the U.S. House Un-American Activities
Committee, and moralistic religious sects illustrate the
logical extremes. They illustrate the alienation which
originates when there is confusion about what is
essential to human fulfillment. Attempts to enforce
do's and don'ts logically entail formal and informal
excommunication as punishment and so the generation
of alienation.
Because of alienation and confusion many of the
behaviors of the members of a group are perceived as
immoral and meriting the punishment of
excommunication. As as result people are further
alienated and unable to listen intimately to the
insights of each other. Legalists have a hard time
listening to lovers, because the legalists are so
compulsively preoccupied with do's and don'ts and the
technologies of enforcing them.
Legalists divide the world into two camps, the "good"
people and the "evil" people. To be "good" is to favor
the "good" people and set up defenses to protect the
"good" people from the "evil" people. The legalists of
the world have divided it into two camps, each of which
says that the other one is the "evil" camp and the
sufficient reason for destroying the economic health of
the "good" camp in a futile race for military superiority
over the "evil" camp. To the legalists of the world,
the whole thing is very logical, no matter how
alienative it is, and no matter that it may end in
destroying all living creatures on Earth.
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