![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the other man very seldom replies: 'To hell with your standard.' Nearly always he tries to make out that what he has been doing does not really go against the standard, or that if it does there is some special excuse. He is appealing to some kind of standard of behaviour which he expects the other man to know about. Now what interests me about all these remarks is that the man who makes them is not merely saying that the other man's behaviour does not happen to please him. They say things like this: 'How'd you like it if anyone did the same to you?' - 'That's my seat, I was there first' - 'Leave him alone, he isn't doing you any harm' - 'Why should you shove in first?' - 'Give me a bit of your orange, I gave you a bit of mine' - 'Come on, you promised.' People say things like that every day, educated people as well as uneducated, and children as well as grown-ups. Sometimes it sounds funny and sometimes it sounds merely unpleasant but however it sounds, I believe we can learn something very important from listening to the kind of things they say. BEYOND PERSONALITY: OR FIRST STEPS IN THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITYĮvery one has heard people quarrelling. RIGHT AND WRONG AS A CLUE TO THE MEANING OF THE UNIVERSEīOOK 4. ![]()
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