Incoherence becomes a problem only within relationships in which it is scorned.

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In the case of relational being, however, nothing so exotic as repression is essential to our understanding. We carry with us multiple and conflicting potentials for what pass as good and evil. However, most of these potentials seldom reach consciousness, not because we defend against them, but because they are simply irrelevant to the confluence of our daily activities. One may read of murder, and thereby acquire a model of such action. One knows how to do it. However, one seldom participates in the kinds of relationships (e.g. street gangs, Mafia) in which murder is an intelligible action. In less extreme terms, most adults know how to play hop-scotch, hide and seek, and spin the bottle, but these potentials are irrelevant to the daily contexts of our lives. What holds civilization together is primarily the everyday demand for remaining intelligible within our relationships.
Gergen, Kenneth J