OPM Medical Retirement Legal Representation: Lives abstract and pointless
It is easy to speak about others in an abstract and pointless manner. What is more difficult is to engage the complexity of a human being. When we refer in such a manner, and reduce to a conceptual entity, the minimization allows one to refer to “it” as an object of derision. Thus can one subordinate and state without feeling, “Oh, X is worthless” or “Y is a waste of time”, as if the value of an individual can be quantified like mineral ore or spectrums of inestimable qualities. […]