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From: laura@l5.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Reason gets no respect from Berman
Message-ID: <382@l5.uucp>
Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 15:59:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 30 15:59:20 1985
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In article <951@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>
>If the sense in which you are using value does not permit you to ever act
>against the thing you value, then you can value only that one thing.
>Because whatever else you might value, it is possible that you will have
>to choose between the two.
>
This I do not buy.  I think that this is only true if you values certain
very strict ends. Do you value your money more than a new car is a definite
choice.  But if you value a way of being then you have a great deal of
flexibility without the necessity to choose between alternatives.

Part of valuing reason for me is because I can use it to understand why
I sometimes feel that I have to choose between terrible alternatives. I
can often discover that what I want becomes clear because I was not
thinking clearly when i thought that I wanted something.  A common mistake
I make is to think that I want *something* when what I really want is *to
deserve something*.  When I remember this, a lot of disappointment goes away.
Sure, i would like to have had that job, but the person who was hired was
better than I was and deserves the job.  Can I persist in wanting it while
realising that this would mean that I want for someone better qualified than
I to go without...nope.  Aha -- I thought that I wanted a job, and what I
wanted was to deserve a job.  

Reason is wonderful if you consistently apply it.  You get rid of a lot
of frustration through understanding.  And nearly all apparant conflicts
go away under its application.  What I find left is injustice.


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Laura Creighton		
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