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                         %OBJECTIVE SCIENTIFIC EVIL 861125

     In  an effort to minimize bias scientists as  persons
are  committed  to  objectivity.   They fear that  in  the
absence  of  a  commitment to objectivity  they  will  let
subjective  relationships  cause them to ignore  important
evidence, or to use misleading patterns of thought.  It is
important to pay attention, not ignore,  the fact that the
motives for possibly ignoring important evidence,  and for
possibly using misleading patterns  of thought, pertain to
disintegrative subjective relationships.   In an effort to
deal   with   disintegrative   subjective   relationships,
scientists   commit  themselves  to  dealing   only   with
objective   relationships,    and   so  ignore  subjective
relationships,  and use misleading patterns of thought  to
conceal the fact that they are ignoring important evidence
which  relates  in a central way to the  reasons  for  the
motivations  which drive and guide their particular  kinds
of bias.

     Alienation  engenders fear of how other  people  will
regard  one's own behavior.  When we are alienated we fear
that  in  the  absence of a commitment  to  the  conformal
thought pattern "they"  will subject us to excommunicative
relations,  and cause "them"  to ignore  us  as  important
members  of  "their"   community,   or  to  use misleading
patterns of  thinking  about us,  to make us  look  to  be
"evil".    The essence of evil behavior is the engendering
of such a feed-back loop in the progressive break down  of
channels  of  communication,  including the process of the
objectification and depersonalization of people seeking to
avoid bias by ignoring subjective relationships.

     In a tragic way the ideal of  objectivity  undermines
the central purpose of  that ideal;  i.e.,  the purpose of
transcending bias.  When the ideal of objectivity leads to
alienation,   the alienation blocks the free flow  of some
kinds  of information,  perceptions,  opinions,  etc.  The
selective blockage of communication constitutes bias which
originates  in  an alienative effort to transcend bias;  a
tragedy  in the classic Greek sense of alienation  through
the fulfillment of high ideals.

     These    considerations    clearly   indicate    that
objectivity is  not  appropriate as the focus of  ultimate
concern  and  reverence.    Objectivity is not the way  to
transcend bias, for  it  leads  to alienation which blocks
non-objective    communications;    creating   thereby   a
particular kind of bias.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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