Labyrinth of the Spirit: Fallacious behavior.

The Fallacy	The fallacy is this: The natural instinct to do right is replaced by the attitude of being right, thereby denying the awareness of error. From a narrow point of view, being right may feel correct, but from a broad point of view, when attitude is based on some type of exclusion, choice may be based on error, and be invalid. If not invalid, at least questionable when considered in terms of "the good," either individually or for all concerned. From an attitude determined to be right, beliefs can be supported by fallacious proofs; fallacious proofs breed false principles; false principles create convenient truths; convenient truths deny reality and require prejudicial attitudes to support weak arguments. Ironically, weak arguments depend on the same logic that uses the mechanics of reason! Fallacies are supported by logic. The instinct to do right uses the same process. An honest attempt to do right opens the mind to honest proof; honest proof breeds solid principles; solid principles promote truth, and a perception of truth is a revelation. Revelation of truth makes invalid arguments unnecessary.
The Choice	Choice is always available, but the process that reveals truth is the same process that supports fallacious thinking. Therefore, deciding between foolish or wise, delusion or accurate perception, false or true choice, determines the effect . When behavior is blindly consistent, certain stimuli produce the same effect if the same choice is made each time. From such blind behavior springs this chancy advice: Choose the same, but hope that things will turn out differently this time. The Labyrinth of the Spirit promotes the idea that behaviors based on falsity may have an immediate effect, but their effects ultimately prove meaningless. For example, faith in a belief or idea has powerful immediate effects, because behavior is based on belief. But, if that faith is proved to be in error, what do its effects really mean? Faith itself is a behavior based on a desire for meaning, which, using logic, defines facts according to the meaning defined by that faith. Then the urge to be right looks just like the instinct to do right, and by pretending to be what it is not, triumphs over instinct.. The research of Viktor E. Frankl, the European psychiatrist who survived the WWII concentration camps, disclosed that "the will to meaning in most people is fact, not faith." Fact matters, but is based on perception, and perception is based on belief. Belief, in turn, determines faith. Faith is admirable, but false faith is misplaced. Faith in reality is preferable to false wishful (wistful?) faith. Meaning depends on reality, not fancy, but leans on faith, and that is a fact. From his experience and observations, Frankl wrote: It is not what happens, it is the attitude adopted toward what happens. He experienced powerful negative stimuli, yet maintained a positive attitude, demonstrating that true (see definitions) choice exists, is meaningful, and warrants faith. Gruesome facts, false facts, mistaken perceptions, fallacious choices, do not warrant faith. Behavior depends on choices. Some choices warrant faith.
Error	Despite good intentions, choices based on fallacy invite error. In the Process (See link below), choices have the possibility for error that is characteristic for the choice offered. The choice is between error or not, and the choice is not always clear. It is advantageous to see the potential for error, because knowing this potential provides the opportunity to correct or renounce error and decide beneficially. The Process suggests that an open mind finds truth. When the mind is deluded or misled, one error builds upon another, and truth hard to discern. Then, the Process is not productive, but destructive. It depends on choice. Poor choice makes the Process fallacious. Good choice makes the Process valuable.
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