12th Entry

Okay, I know the paper should be pretty much outlined now and I should start writing but I need to keep blogging and figure out what I am going to write. I completely ignored half the prompt while sketching but i think and hope I can figure it out in this post.
Going through the prompt, the desire for acceptance drives human beings, it is that we want to be accepted for our true selves what we consider our perfections and flaws to be accepted, this quote I found in the book the power of empathy says, "By acceptance I mean a warm regard for him as a person of unconditional self worth- of value no matter what his condition, his behaivor, or his feelings. It means a respect and liking for him as a sepreate person, a willingness for him to possess his own feelings in his own way. It means an acceptance of and regard of his own feelings and attitude of the moment, no matter how negative or postive, no matter how much they may contradict other attitudes he has held in the oast. This acceptance of each fluttering aspect of this other person make it for him a relationship of warmth and safety, and safety of being liked and prized as a person seens a highly important element in a helping relationship" (179). I believe that since human beings crave acceptance, have an inherent desire to push for acceptance, and this desire often times overcomes us and creates a hesitance inside of human beings to help others in their quest for acceptance. So in this case I don't think human beings are born innocent, I also don't think we are born evil but I think there is this hesitance/fear we are born with that a formal civilization has to tame. In the JFK Jr. example in my last post, his mother, Jacqueline Kennedy, serves as a formalizied civilization where she is a source of acceptance that others to diminish. Our civilization needs to try to abolish this fear of accepting others because it could affect our own acceptance we crave. It doesn't make sense that we are hesitant to accept others, with it being such a factor in human nature, but that why a formal civilization is needed to tame this factor and help human beings in their quest for acceptance. I think that people's natural hesitance varies in effect, which is good. Civilization needs to send a feeling/message to the people within that it is okay to be yourself, be different and break the barriers of the norm, and still be accepted by others. Civilization needs to make areas where everyone has a opportunity to be accepted. I am going to keep thinking about this civilization stuff and hopefully start my rough draft.