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  %VALUE SIGNIFICANCE MEANING FREE COERCED BEHAVIOR 910227

     The value,  the significance and the meaning  of  any
particular  behavior  depends  upon whether or not  it  is
engaged  in  freely,   or in response to  manipulative  or
coercive  considerations.    What is learned by  a  person
engaging in a particular behavior depends upon whether the
behavior   is  engaged  in  freely,   or  in  response  to
manipulative  or  coercive  consideration.    Thus  it  is
important  to  consider how freely members of a  community
engage  in  the behaviors of their daily lives,  for  what
they  learn through their activities and the  significance
of  their  activities depends critically upon  how  freely
they choose to do what they do.

     It is not enough to consider only the overt  behavior
of  people.   It is important to have an understanding  of
the motivations which lead people to behave as they do.

     Overt  behavior   can   be   studied   "objectively".
Motivations which lead to overt behavior cannot be studied
"objectively".   It is thus important to study some aspect
of behavior which cannot be studied "objectively".   It is
important  to  discuss why it is  that  some  compulsively
objective   people   refuse  to  consider  the   reflexive
motivations  which lead people to behave as they do;  what
motivates such compulsive people to refuse to talk  openly
and  honestly about their own personal motivations?    Are
they  out of touch with their own motivations and  do  not
know them?   Are they unaware of and do not know their own
feelings?    Do  they  not  take their  own  feelings  and
motivations seriously?  To what might they be addicted?

     Compulsively objective  people may  object  to  being
asked   to  discuss  how  they  and  others  respond  non-
objectively  to reflexive realities.   Is there a  healthy
way  in  which they can defend their objections with  both
personal  and  communal  integrity?   Do  such  objections
promote both personal and communal integrity,  or are they
symptoms of a lack of personal and communal integrity?

     Can these  questions be answered  objectively?    Are
these   questions  meaningless  questions?     Can   these
questions  be responded to meaningfully in ways which  are
not objective?
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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