It’s the idea that when another person does something for you, you have to do something in return—even if that person does not want anything.
Rather than responding to the goodwill, it is just being tied to reward.
No matter what sort of appeal the other person might make, you are the only one who decides what you should do.
YOUTH: Reward is at the root of what I am calling “ties”? PHILOSOPHER: Yes.
When reward is at the base of an interpersonal relationship,
there’s a feeling that wells up in one that says, “I gave this much, so you should give me that much back.”
This is a notion that is quite different from separation of tasks, of course. We must not seek reward, and we must not be tied to it.
YOUTH: Hmm. PHILOSOPHER: However, there are certainly situations
in which it would be easier to intervene in the tasks of another person without doing any separation of tasks—
for instance, in a child-raising situation, when a child is having a hard time tying his shoes.
For the busy mother, it is certainly faster to tie them than to wait for him to do it himself.
But that is an intervention, and it is taking the child’s task away from him.
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