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%INDIVIDUAL OWNERSHIP VS RELATIONSHIP 850914
Some societies focus upon individual ownership of
whatever the society values: possessions of a material
sort, individual reputations, slaves, employees, friends,
wives, children, membership in elite clubs, the right of
the entry into heaven, etc.
Other societies focus upon the quality of personal
relationships within which members of the society find
their meaning, significance and satisfaction. In the
latter societies judgments are not centered upon isolated
individual actions and possessions, but upon the quality
of relationships which involve two or more members of the
society. Judgments pertain to the quality of the
relationships.
It makes a significant difference whether a society
focuses upon individuals as isolated entities when making
judgment, or upon the relationships within which
cooperating members of the society participate. To pass
judgment upon a relationship leads to different kinds of
responses than to pass judgment upon an isolated
individual. People who feel that their relationship is
inadequate and wish to improve the relationship are in a
natural position to cooperate upon improving the quality
of the relationship. The effort to cooperate itself tends
to improve the relationship.
A person who has been judged inadequate and rejected
is isolated and not in a natural position by self effort
to improve self and become acceptable to people prone to
make negative judgments of individuals who are in
competition with judges for the limited attention which is
available. Focusing upon individuals in passing judgments
tends to promote alienation. Focusing upon relationships
in passing judgments tends to promote cooperation.
Individuals both participate in and are created by
relationships. Apart from human relationships humans are
not human. To judge humans apart from their relationships
does not promote personal and communal integrity. To make
judgments about the quality of human relationships does
promote personal and communal integrity. The former
judgment is not an act of love, the latter may be.
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