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           %CONFLICTING MOTIVATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS 870416

     In  considering  the wisdom of any  action  a  person
needs to give thought to:

     (1)  Practical  consequences which are independent of
human choices and responses,

     (2)  The  meaning  which the  actor  is  inclined  to
assign to the possible action,

     (3)  The  significance which members of the community
may assign to the action,

     (4)  Other  considerations  relating  to  the  inter-
relationships among the above.

     No  one  person  has  control of  all  of  the  above
motivational  considerations.   The community as  a  whole
does  not  have  control of  all  the  above  motivational
considerations,   because  the  community  does  not  have
control of all that transpires within any individual.

     People   can  not  control  consequences  which   are
independent  of  human  choices  and   responses; for such
consequences  flow from the nature of reality  and  events
which are independent of human choices and responses.

     One person may define an action to have one  meaning,
yet  it  may  be  perceived  by others  to  have  quite  a
different meaning.  The significance of an action does not
depend  upon  any  one  person's  definition,   but   upon
individuals' and the community's perceptions  of  what may
be its  practical consequences  and  meanings.   Differing
conceptions   of   relationships   between   actions   and
consequences lead  to different  perceptions  of meanings;
and  so  to   different significances.   Significances can
depend upon differences in theories  of  cause and effect,
as well  as  upon differences  in decisions regarding what
should  happen.    People  may become confused  about  the
difference  between:   natural laws which transcend  human
decisions,  actions,  and responses  on the one hand;  and
human  laws  which  reflect human desires,   expectations,
hopes, demands, etc.   They are different  kinds  of laws.
To  regard  them  as  not  different from  each  other  is
disintegrative in ways which people can not control.

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