This is http://www.essayz.com/a9207181.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %DILEMMA PROBLEM TECHNICAL OBJECTIVE REFLEXIVE 920718 Dilemmas are not technical problems, for dilemmas cannot be solved through the use of manipulative techniques. Not all the troubling situations in life can be solved through the use of manipulative techniques. Some situations are dilemmas, and accommodations which involve changes within ourselves and within our communities may well be in order, in order for us to deal wisely with dilemmas. Technical problems can be solved through objective techniques which involve impersonal manipulations of objects as objects which have no will and no affective response. Dilemmas cannot be solved through objective techniques and we cannot be objective about dilemmas; for dilemmas confront us as persons in ways from which we cannot detach. Dilemmas often have to do with our limitations, such as our limited: powers, knowledge, wisdom, skills, life-times, energy, insight, creativity, perception, ability to be in control, etc. Our attempts to be in control can lead to dilemmas. Our attempts to be perfectly faithful to our ideals and values can lead us to dilemmas. It is a dilemma when our best ideals and values lead us into the tragic consequences of our very best efforts to be faithful to our ideals and values. Dilemmas are pointed to by such words as: population explosion, sex education, AIDS crisis, abortion, pollution, environmental crisis, science education crisis, arms races, resource depletion, energy crisis, terminal illnesses, genetic deformations, religious fanaticism, addictions, codependencies, and collusions. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================