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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9604182.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.} ========================================================== %DISPLEASE SECOND CLASS PEOPLE BETTER FIRST CAST 960418 How is it possible for some people to make sense of their ready willingness to displease many people; i.e., to act in ways which are harmful, coercive, violent and contrary to the wishes of many people? How is one to decide which people it makes sense to displease, and which people it does not make sense to displease? It does not make sense to be ready to displease all people. How can we tell the difference? Most people who willingly displease some people operate within a paradigm where to them it makes sense to classify people into two groups. The First-class people are the people whom one seeks to please. The Second-class people are people whom it makes no sense to try to please. The only problem is to devise some basis for classification. It is much easier than to deal with people on the basis of their class than on the basis of their individual needs, desires, expressions and behaviors. Simple-minded people who cannot deal honestly with real complexity often insist on over-simplifying reality. They cannot be honest about complex situations. They try to t urn complex situations into simple situations through the use of simple classification systems. All people thus get classified into two classes: First-class people whom one seeks to please. Second-class people who are dismissed as of no count and so as expendable. First-class people are friends. Second-class people are enemies. Such a classification system seems to meet the needs of simple-minded people; but it does not make life simple--- for it engenders endless conflict between people of different classes, casts, races, religions, economic conditions and education levels. Dishonest classification systems engender endless alienation, conflict and violence. Dishonest people do not have reliable facts in terms of which to make decisions. Dishonest people are not wise people. Dishonest people are not reliable people. Dishonest people do not learn from their mistakes. It is foolish to respect dishonest people. It is foolish to let dishonest people set agendas. It is foolish to follow the lead of dishonest people in patterns of personal relationships. It is foolish to copy the coercive and violent patterns of behavior of dishonest people; to get into the gutter with them to deal with them as they deal with others. When we deal with dishonest people in their manner--- we become just like them and do not see clearly what we have become. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================