Saturday, October 30, 2010

Selfish Desire

"No relationship can be a right one which makes use of another person through selfish desire."

Advices, 1964

1 comment:

  1. Love this comment. Haven't seen it spelt out like that before. In my old age (takes me a while sometimes to work things out and get to the essence), I want to just shout to everyone - particularly about issues of sexuality - it is about exploitation. The homophobics carry on - and forget that women and children have more to fear from heterosexual men because of all the domestic violence and men murdering their children because they feel they have lost out after a relationship break-up/down. Homosexuals have to remember that they themselves are not perfect and many exploit other men just as heterosexual men exploit women. Women can exploit men, seeing them only as vehicles for cash, security and/or sex.....and so on. And it is summed up in one word - exploitation. Using another person - as the Advice says - for one's own selfish desire.

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