From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   There are many situations in which people mistake the value for the abuses of   
   the value. This leads them to throw away what is valid along with what is   
   invalid.   
      
   Valid: Confronting abuse against unattractive people. Invalid: militating   
   against family, beauty and love.   
      
   Valid: Wanting business to treat workers better. Invalid: advocating for   
   slaughters of propertied class.   
      
   Valid: Seeking more responsible treatment of the environment. Invalid:   
   attacking scientific and technological progress.   
      
   Valid: loving your ethnic group. Invalid: hating other ethnic groups.   
      
   What we see in such situations, once again, is confusion between the value and   
   the misuses of the value. That stupid teenagers and unethical plastic surgeons   
   do wrong things for beauty does not damn beauty; it damns them. That some in   
   business are ugly    
   to their workers does not damn the propertied; it damns them. That some people   
   see environmental protection as incompatible with the goals of capitalism does   
   not damn capitalism; it damns them. That some people think that patriotism   
   means hating other    
   countries does not damn patriotism; it damns them.   
      
   When confronted with abuses of a value, the correct solution is therefore   
   distinguishing the valid from the invalid. Stupid teenagers and unethical   
   plastic surgeons don’t own beauty; it has existed for many centuries before   
   them and will continue    
   existing long after they are gone. People who use money for wrong things do   
   not own money; there are all sorts of prosperous people, and many of them are   
   good people. People who blindly plunder nature do not own science and   
   technology; the best    
   technologies are congruent with nature and realize both economic benefit and   
   environmental sanity. And people who support such things as white supremacism   
   make total asses of their ethnic groups and lead to the ethnic group being   
   hated.   
      
   So we have seen people look at the wrong done in families and becoming   
   anti-family. That is wrong. The problem is not the value but the misuses of   
   the value. People doing wrong things in families discredits family as such,   
   which is a completely    
   destructive direction. Family should not be equated with its abuses. Family   
   can, and should, be done better.   
      
   There are any number of applications to this. And when we see a value being   
   tarnished by its abuses, the correct solution, once again, is to separate the   
   valid from the invalid. Then these kinds of problems actually have a chance to   
   be solved in a wise    
   and principled way.   
      
   This, then, becomes the solution to the situation.   
      
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