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 %OBJECTIVE BODY REFLEXIVE EXPERIENCE EVIL PARADIGM 910104

     Personal   and  communal  integrity depend  upon  how
well  members of the community manage to  integrate  their
ways  of  viewing   their bodies as objects which  can  be
manipulated as can impersonal objects,   while at the same
time  viewing  themselves  and others reflexively in  ways
which  are  not objective.

     There   is no denying that people have  bodies  which
can   be  treated as impersonal objects in very  objective
ways.

     There    is   no   denying   that  when  people   are
treated   as  impersonal objects in very  objective  ways,
they respond to such  treatment  as violence,   in that it
violates   their  personal  integrity.   If  they  do  not
regard such treatment as violence,  they are in many  ways
dead.

     When  people  relate  to each other as  persons  with
integrity there  are  both reflexive and objective aspects
of     their   relationships.      Integrative    personal
relationships  are  not dominated by either  objective  or
reflexive considerations;  but rather are characterized by
an  integrative  interaction between  both  objective  and
reflexive consideration.

     How  people feel towards each other depends upon  the
manner  in  which they touch each other:    with  physical
violence,  gentle affection,  sexual rape,   gentle sexual
affection,  intellectually,  spiritually,  in professional
massage,    etc.   Whether  touching  is  integrative   or
disintegrative  depends upon  whether those involved  have
well  integrated  lives  as  regards  the  objective   and
reflexive aspects of being fully human.

     It   is   futile  to  try to maintain  a  view   that
either objective   or  reflexive  considerations  are  the
most  important;    and  that the other of the two is   of
lesser  importance.     Personal  and  communal  integrity
depend   upon  the   integration    of    both   objective
and    reflexive  considerations.     Any  preoccupations,
ideals,    values  or goals  which  tend to undermine such
integration  leads   to  alienation and to  much  that  is
usually regarded as evil.

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