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                 %VALUE LADEN BEHAVIOR AND FOCUSING 880325

     All  behavior  is value laden.   The choice to  spend
one's own time doing one thing rather than spend one's own
time  doing  another thing is an expression  of  what  one
considers to be important in a given context.

     Values  have  to  do with the  allocation  of  scarce
resources:   time, energy, creativity, opportunities,  raw
materials,   manufactured goods,  information,  education,
etc.    All behavior entails the allocation of  resources,
even  if  only the time of the persons who are engaged  in
the behavior.   Values may be implicit in behavior without
having   first   been   made   explicit   in   any   overt
communication.    In  fact,  most values are  implicit  in
behaviors rather than explicit in communications of ideals
and overt statements of relative importance.

     No  behavior is value neutral,  because all  behavior
entails the use of the limited life time of those  engaged
in the behavior.  Each behavior is an overt declaration of
the worth of spending time engaged in the behavior, and is
a  role  model  affirmation of the value implicit  in  the
behavior.

     Each behavior occurs in the context of an opportunity
to engage in other behaviors.   Such an opportunity may be
a limited resource; an opportunity which occurs once---and
never again in quite the same way.   Unique  opportunities
created  by  the  presence of  particular  combination  of
circumstances and persons are resource opportunities which
are  fulfilled  or  not  fulfilled,   depending  upon  the
behaviors of the persons who are present.  Each pattern of
behavior is an affirmation of the worth of fulfilling  one
among   many   opportunities,   by  neglecting  the  other
opportunities  present  in the given context.   Thus,   no
behavior is value neutral.

     No  human  creation is value neutral,   because  each
human  creation  is the product of some pattern  of  human
behaviors and  so  represents those human  behaviors.   To
affirm  any human creation by attending to it is to affirm
the worth  of the human behaviors which created that which
is affirmed.   To spend time criticizing a creation is  to
affirm  that it is worth spending  one's  time  with  that
creation  as the focus of attention;  to let its  presence
lead one's behavior.

     All focusing of attention is value laden.  To pretend
it  is  not,  is also the focusing of attention and so  is
value laden.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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