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    %ANALYZE ASSIGN FAULT GUILT CAUSE EFFECT HONEST 890622

     In  the objective realm it is often useful to analyze
the  whole  into  its elementary component  parts  and  to
perceive  the  whole  only in  terms  of  its  interacting
elementary parts.

     In the objective way of perception, the specific role
of  each  part of the whole is an essential  part  of  the
whole process of understanding, predicting and controlling
the whole to advance human advantage.

     When  the objective way of perception is  transferred
into  the  realm of  inter-personal  relationships  people
commonly  analyze the whole of a community into the  roles
which individual people have played and so perceive tragic
consequences  as assignable to individual choices made  by
individual people.

     The  transferral of the impersonal objective  way  of
analysis  into the personal domain often leads to analytic
efforts  which assign fault and guilt to  individuals  who
have participated in the whole process.   Such  assignment
of  fault and guilt is based upon some theory of cause and
effect in regards to human reactions/responses to  events.
People are treated as if they were only isolated objective
elements of an objective process.   Such a theory fails to
take  proper  account of the reflexive communal  processes
which are central to human interactions.

     Any theory which leads people to treat each other  as
objects that are free of reflexive considerations is bound
to  be  a tragic theory;  i.e.,  a  theory which leads  to
tragic  consequences which flow from trying diligently  to
fulfill ideals and values.   People do not lead meaningful
lives  when  they  treat each other as if  they  are  non-
reflective   objects.     To  assign  fault   for   tragic
consequences  to individuals chosen as  sacrificial  scape
goats,   does  not  help the community  to  transcend  its
misguided objective theory of human relationships.

     The  assignment  of fault and guilt is  usually  more
alienative than it is integrative.   A  preoccupation with
fault and guilt does not lead to the kind of understanding
which is essential to Love.  Love does not seek to achieve
a manipulative objective understanding in which assignment
of fault and guilt play important roles.

     People who are preoccupied with fault,  guilt, debts,
responsibility,   punishment,  etc.   back into the future
without  being  able  to  see where they  are  going.    A
compulsive  preoccupation with looking back does not  lead
wisely  into the future;  yet,  the past cannot wisely  be
ignored.

     Whether  or not the past is wisely  regarded  depends
upon  the attitudes,  the habits of mind and heart,  which
guide  the consideration of the past.   We need to be open
and  honest with each other about all decisions,  actions,
consequences,  and our understandings of them.   We pay  a
great  price  in alienation and disintegration if  we  are
preoccupied   with   assigning  fault,    guilt,    debts,
responsibility and punishment with regard to the past. The
fault  for the tragic consequences often lies as much with
the communal attitudes as with individual participants.

     Excessive  reductionist analysis can  mislead  people
into  tragic  misunderstandings  of the  nature  of  their
dilemmas.    Treating  the  tragic  consequences  of  such
misunderstandings  as problems caused by individual  scape
goats  who  are  worthy of sacrifice,  does not  help  the
community  transcend the misleading,  and tragic method of
analysis.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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