PASO, problematic aspects of the Social Order

Definition: Placeholder

An Aspect or Aspects of the Social Order that requires or encourages a Person or an Organization to substitute Communication for Conversation and Voluntary Helpfulness, raising the question - Is this substitution appropriate?

Commentary

The above definition has two premises - (1) Conversation and Voluntary Helpfulness are fundamentally consistent with our human Nature and therefore generally Desirable and (2) Communication should generally supplement them. Thus in a particular instance, to put an Event of Communication in place of an Event of Conversation and/or Voluntary Helpfulness raises the question - Is this Communication better than Conversation and/or Voluntary Helpfulness in this instance?  

The concept of PASO may best be explained with examples -

#1 - A severely extreme example

This example is not a matter of "encouragement," but of force - John Doe offends the Social Order terribly with violence.  The state or federal government (an Organization) places John Doe not only in a men's prison for life, but additionally in solitary confinement for one month for a serious prison rule infraction. Communication is thus entirely substituted for Conversation and Voluntary Helpfulness.  A tray of food and water is anonymously slid through a slot in his cell door periodically.  The solid walls, door and tray of food is the Communication. There is no Conversation or Voluntary Helpfulness.  John Doe is utterly alone.

Solitary confinement clearly is problematic for John Doe, the individual Person. His Sensorium is massively deprived.  But it also is problematic for society - For example, keeping John Doe in prison and solitary confinement is financially expensive, money society could have spent in other ways to encourage Conversation and Voluntary Helpfulness.

Thus, solitary confinement in prison (Aspects of the Social Order) is a PASO - That is, without providing an answer, the question of appropriateness is raised.

#2 - An extreme example

In this case, John Doe offends the Social Order terribly with billions of dollars worth of securities fraud.  He is confined for life in a minimum security prison within the general (non-violent) prison population of men where he can talk, eat, play games, exercise, work at assigned jobs, read books and so on with other men in a population not of his own choosing.  Within this limited sphere, John can, if he wants to, engage in Conversation and Voluntary Helpfulness.

However, to relate to women or to men outside of prison he can only send and receive written letters.  John Doe finds this problematic.  His Sensorium is deprived of the entire outside world of potential Conversation and Voluntary Helpfulness. Thus, this confinement in prison is also a PASO.