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%DESIRE VS ACTION 840617
The desire to have the property which belongs to
another person is not the same as the action of taking
that property, of stealing it. Such a desire is not the
same as letting another person know of the desire. There
are differences between desiring to have, confessing the
desire, and stealing what one wants. Our awareness of
such differences make it possible for use to treat such
different realities differently and justly.
It is more difficult to distinguish the differences
between sexual desire and sexual action. This is because,
among other things, sharing sexual desire is sexual
action. To merely confess a sexual desire is to perform a
sexual act in many situations. Often sexual honesty is
taboo, and to confess a desire is regarded as a sin---
must not be confessed---because to confess the sin is
itself a sin. This makes forgiveness and
reconciliation difficult, because even reconciliation
can become a sin under such circumstances! In coherent
patterns of social taboos can create social double binds.
It is often difficult to tell the differences between
a desire for sexual union and a desire for communal
integrity. The desire to share with another person that
which is important to you can not always be distinguished
from the desire for sexual union. Thus if it is taboo to
confess a desire for sexual union, through the confusion
of small differences, it may be perceived as taboo to be
open and honest about what is most important to you.
Such an operation of a taboo increases alienation---which
is often regarded as the essence of evil and sin.
Alienation tends to be the consequence of taboos
against actions which can not be distinguished from
confessions of desires. Such taboos undermine openness
and honesty and so tend to cause alienation. Such taboos
lead people to repress their own desires from their
own consciousness---and so make it impossible for people
to wisely decide in terms of their own informed
consciousness---and so make it impossible for people to
wisely decide which desires to fulfill. Under
repression desires come to be expressed through sub-
conscious processes---rather than through open and
honest social processes.
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