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One may actually turn on oneself.
One's self-consciousness, in fact, will be dependent on one's recognition of those others as similarly recognizing oneself as a self-conscious subject.
We do this by working on our self-control, retaining what I call our ¨happiness quota" and becoming aware that our happiness is not dependent on others, but on oneself, and that we alone can choose to be happy despite the circumstances around us.
So, if one wishes others to confer benefits on oneself, one confers benefits on them.
"This sentiment is one that is applied only to others, never to oneself, and real morality starts with demands one makes on oneself," he wrote.
Why take out one's disappointment on oneself by putting oneself in an early grave?
His stump speech was little more than warmed-over babble about the evils of "big government," the importance of being "self sufficient" and the dangers of people becoming dependent on government instead of lifting oneself up by one's bootstraps.
They were dependent on no one.
The lesson is always some trite sentence about working on oneself and not being dependent on anyone else for happiness.
Even outside of divorce, though, opting out of paid work entirely and making oneself financially dependent on a male partner inherently puts women in a traditional role.
Presumably, the ability to assert oneself is dependent on the bonding status (and is stronger in females than in males), since most of the conflicts are initiated by bonded birds.
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