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%JUDGING EXCLUSIVE IDEALS 850414
Our most important ideals are affirmed most
powerfully by how we spend the resource which we as mortal
creatures can not expand; how we spend our time.
The house-wife who spends four hours each day
cleaning to keep her house perfectly clean affirms the
importance to her of an immaculate house as compared to
the other ways she could spend her time. The business
executive who develops a pattern of working late every day
affirms the lack of importance of personal social life as
compared to expanding business affairs. The scientist who
works long hours to perfect weapons with which to
incinerate millions of people affirms the importance of
manipulative techniques as compared to intimate personal
involvements.
Some affirmations need not be made in exclusive ways.
We can affirm a friendship with one friend without having
to deny friendships with complementary friends. We can
affirm the importance of thrift and saving without having
to keep all the money we get. We can agree that two plus
two equals four without denying that three plus three
equals six. Yet, without needing to we all to often feel
that to affirm one ideal we must deny some other ideal.
Some people affirm their faithfulness to their spouse
by having no other friends of the same sex as their
spouse. Many affirm their patriotism by regarding all
other nations with suspicion. Religious zealots may
affirm their faith by denying the truth of scientists
discoveries. Scientific zealots may affirm the
reliability of their discoveries by denying the meaning of
religious insights.
We should look with doubt upon ideals which are
affirmed by compensating denials. Why is compensation
needed? Why is it not adequate to affirm the ideals in a
positive way? What value is there in the ideal if it can
be affirmed most forcefully by tearing other ideals down?
Tearing other ideals down leads to alienation,
estrangement, and misunderstanding which blocks
appreciation of the ideals which might better have been
affirmed in positive ways. It is counter-productive to
serve ideals in ways which lead to alienation,
estrangement and misunderstanding. No worthy ideals can
be furthered in such ways. Proposed ideals can be judged
on this basis.
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