Re: pain and learning

Judy Diamondstone (diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu)
Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:28:44 -0400

Robin wrote:
it seems to imply that
>an institution (how should we define that?) can inflict pain even
>while the intentions of the individuals within it are benign.

I think I said in an earlier post, months ago, that indeed,
if we are so positioned institutionally or otherwise to
control the agency of others, we can & do do so while operating
on very different intentions.

Robin also wrote:
>Whose experiential reality do we use as the benchmark in this case
>to decide whether or not cruelty is present? Can we ever behave
>in such a way that some one person in our midst does not perceive
>us as "cruel"?

In response, I quote Joao (from the last posting):

>While we get up the contradictions, enlighten the mechanism used to
>opress and shared ours discovery whit syndicates, association wich defend
>the human dues, etc... we walk in the direction of one society more
>democratic, I hope...
>

- Judy

Judy Diamondstone
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
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