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Elaboration 25
Some educational experts, maintain that children are fundamentally
'takers', not givers (like their parents). This is a truth but ...
only part of it. Everybody, all life, all ideation, is fundamentally
based upon 'taking' (I, to have,). In all nature, parental care for
the young is a very temporary exception. The seemingly altruism (see
Spencer, Wells, Tietjens, etc.) which is in reality 'I, to have'
too, is necessary for enabling evolution at all. In humans it should
be in use to teach the child the self discipline necessary for the
grown-up in a society, a tribe, a family. The (human) principle is:
starting off with downright enforced discipline (hetero), later,
gradually to be replaced by learned, taught, self-discipline. The
properly balanced world-citizen, the true member of society, should
remain a 'taker', but only in so far as is compatible with the very
existence, the rights of other citizens. They have rights too. Look
at the life-example, a life-cell in one's body, say the liver. Its
task is not simply to function as liver. That comes a long way
second. Its first task is to remain alive (is: to take). The second
task is indeed to do liver work, and the third is to keep an eye on
its neighbours. All three come down to control.
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2007-09-11