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To: yendu bwam
It's not just prioritization .... It's giving in to unrestrained and uncontrolled temptations and appetites.

Well, you are smuggling some psychobabble -- giving over to who? I mean presumably people are responsible for their own behavior, so whatever they're doing is to their latest prioritization. That is a clinically accurate way to state it without all the smuggled baggage you want to place on activities you may disagree with.

People eat to feed a hunger, few people eat to get fat. It is a conflict of priorities.

429 posted on 06/11/2002 9:04:33 AM PDT by jlogajan
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To: jlogajan
Well, you are smuggling some psychobabble -- giving over to who?

It's not psychobabble, jlogajan. It's giving over to those parts of your mind that would push you to engage in activities which will harm you or others (and which you know will harm you or others) down the line. When a loose woman invites you to have sex with her, part of your mind (and part of your body!) desperately wants to commit that act. Another part of your mind tells you that the act is wrong and unfair and harmful to both of you (and frequently to others as well). If all the actions and moral decisions you make in your life are purely clinical and a matter of prioritizing, then I honestly feel sorry for you. A great deal of the richness of life, including especially the great play between good and bad, may be missing for you. It may be psychobabble to you, but the vast majority of people understand perfectly well what I'm talking about.

431 posted on 06/11/2002 9:14:15 AM PDT by yendu bwam
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