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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9104221.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.} ========================================================== %ABUSE USABLE OBJECT PEOPLE WASTE MEANS CONTROL 910422 The community which encourages people to use, abuse and throw away objects which are no longer needed as tolerable waste material without any use, thereby encourages people to regard each other in the same manner. When there is no reverence for things as objects, it is difficult to retain any reverence for people as any-thing more than objects; which are available to be used, abused and thrown away when no longer of any use to the abuser. When objects are approached only in the modality of I-It relationships, but not in the modality of I-Thou relationships; it follows that people will be approached in the modality I-It relationships as are objects, and there will be no mysterious difference between people and objects. When there is no mystery about and no wonder in the nature of the relationships between people and objects, it follows that there is unlikely to be any mystery or wonder in the nature of relationships between and among people who enter into purely objective relationships. When people allow themselves to be viewed, regarded, treated, and disposed of as usable and abuse- able objects; it follows that personal relationships will tend to become violent and disintegrative. Technocratic defensive measures will not correct the situation, for the dilemma is not a technical problem; it is a spiritual dilemma rooted in the nature of the self conceptions of the participants in the violence. In the absence of a change in such self conceptions, technology has virtually nothing positive to offer to those trapped on the technocratic paradigm. Comment is called for when people view each other as usable and abuse-able objects. In the absence of any appropriate counter-balancing comments such a point of view is likely to gain respect and power. Appropriate counter-balancing comments do not entail treating other people as impersonal objects which can be manipulated and used to achieve some political end; then to be cast away when they are no longer useful. People of integrity do not view other people of any kind a being available for use and/or abuse; as means to the achievement of some technically define goal. People of integrity view other people as offering opportunities for open and honest humane relationships. Such opportunities are lost when people are regarded as being objects which are available for use, abuse and discard. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================