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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9006051.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.} ========================================================== %SCIENTIST OBJECTIVE BIAS EMOTION ADDICT DISHONEST 900605 The emotional lives of addicts are dominated by emotions associated with games of mutual self deception. Many of the emotions of addicts have to do with the tension of trying to appear to be other than what one really is. One can get emotional highs from being successful in deception, and one can get highs from the excitement of the danger inherent in trying to be successful in deception. The emotional lives and satisfactions of the addict are quite different than the emotional lives and satisfactions of healthy people. The lives of addicts are full of misleading and dishonest behavior. Addicts pretend not to have emotions which they do have, and pretend to have emotions which they do not have. Emotional pretense is essential to winning points in their games of mutual self deception. Emotional pretense is also essential to maintaining some minimal amount of self respect within the confused world of addicts' games of mutual self deception. In such an emotional context it is hard to have much respect for emotions. Emotions may naturally be regarded as being unreliable. Some addicts have found that they can rely upon procedures which help them to avoid emotional involvement. They do not trust any emotions because the only emotions with which they are familiar are addictive emotions. They are not familiar with healthy emotions enjoyed by participants in healthy intimate relationships. In an effort to find something which they can trust they seek to avoid emotional relationships and turn to impersonal things as the focus of their relationships; for it is possible to relate to things in unemotional ways. Young people whose family lives have been emotionally impoverished or have involved them in the unhealthy emotions of addictive relationships thus may turn to scientific work as an escape from unreliable emotions. They seek security in objectivity, because they have not enjoyed security within the context of any emotionally rich relationships. Addictive personalities who seek security in objectivity continue to be addicted; they become addicted to objectivity and pure research. They become involved in addictive games of mutual self deception which say that there is no bias in objectivity and that all truth which can be known is objective truth. They lead emotionally impoverished lives because they seek to avoid unreliable emotions; i.e., all emotions, for they are not familiar with any reliable emotions. Scientists by and large are not open and honest regarding their motivations; not with themselves, not with others. Scientists who are addicted to being objective cannot trust themselves or others to deal with their own or each other's motivations; for to do so would involve them in emotional relationships which they do not know how to deal with. They do not have emotional coping skills. They do not know how to maintain their integrity within the context of emotionally rich relationships, so they stay out of emotionally rich relationships. Physicists who involved themselves in the project of building the first atomic bombs did not deal emotionally with the likely human consequences of their creative work. They pretended that the whole project was primarily objective in character, refusing to think of the inevitable human suffering due to scientific success through the inevitable military use of the fruits of their scientific success. We will not transcend our crises in the growth and use of science and technology until we learn how to deal with the multitude of different manifestations of addiction. Our crises related to science education and the use of science, are crises generated by addictive behaviors. We will transcend such crises only when we start to deal with them in ways which are emotionally and intellectually honest. That will not be possible so long as our leading scientists continue to be addicted to objectivity as the primary key to transcending bias. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================