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| Question 195: Are people, by their atomistic attitude towards each other, responsible for their lack of control over their own social relations? |
| [558] Ann: No, I do not believe people should be responsible for their lack of control in their social situations due to this atomistic attitude. In most instances we did not choose to be placed in our social situations. Because of this lack of choice not all will be relatively “happy” in their social situations and can therefore result in atomistic attitudes towards one another. We should not be held responsible for our lack of control because of this lack of individual choice. |
| Hans: This is an issue which comes up again and again and leads to heated debates. Are we repsonsible for racism if we are nice to all the Blacks we happen to know but do nothing to stop the institutional racism which is so obvious all around us? I agree with you in that we should not feel guilty about it. But we still should feel the mandate in us not to ignore it -- or let me say this better, because one cannot ask someone to feel in a certain way: every human being will have feelings about this, and all we have to do is to be open enough that we can experience these feelings, and act on those feelins or at least support those who do try to rectify this situation. |
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