Friday, October 13, 2023

Quiroga - 108

 BASIC CONFLICT

If you could only do what you like and want, would your daily life be very different from today?

At the base of the answer you formulate to this question is the amount of conflict that you have to harmonize so that the distance between desires and obligations is not so great, to the point that your daily life becomes a torment.

It is difficult to imagine that someone could dedicate themselves exclusively to their desires, neglecting the obligations and duties that they would certainly need to fulfill on behalf of the group of people to which they belong, be they family members, employees or work partners.

What is important to understand in this conflict is that, while desires benefit only the desirer, the fulfillment of obligations promotes group and collective benefits.

I repeat, desires only benefit the desiring subject, who, feeling that he is lacking something, sets out in search of varied satisfactions.

At the same time, obligations and duties, which are not necessarily opposed to desires, in any case have a different nature, because they are not produced by self-centeredness, but by needs of a group, social order and civilization itself.

Fulfilling obligations produces group and social benefits.

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