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Basic freedom as an intrinsic (instinctual) avoidance behavior with respect to aversive stimuli, at its lowest level embodied in reflexes at a higher level by operant conditioning. | Basic freedom as an intrinsic (instinctual) avoidance behavior with respect to aversive stimuli, at its lowest level embodied in reflexes at a higher level by operant conditioning. | ||
<blockquite>Man's struggle for freedom is not due to a will to be free, but to certain behavioral processes characteristic of the | |||
human orrganism, the chief effect of which is the avoidance of or escape from so-called "aversive" features of the environment. | human orrganism, the chief effect of which is the avoidance of or escape from so-called "aversive" features of the environment. | ||
Physical and biological technologies have been mainly concerned with natural aversive stimuli; the struggle for freedom is | Physical and biological technologies have been mainly concerned with natural aversive stimuli; the struggle for freedom is | ||
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aversive consequences. It has been forced to brand all control as wrong and to misrepresent many of the advantages to be gained from | aversive consequences. It has been forced to brand all control as wrong and to misrepresent many of the advantages to be gained from | ||
a social environment. It is unprepared for the next step, which is not to free men from control but to analyze and change the kinds | a social environment. It is unprepared for the next step, which is not to free men from control but to analyze and change the kinds | ||
of control to which they are exposed. | of control to which they are exposed.</blockquote> | ||
=== Dignity === | === Dignity === | ||
