As we grow up, a Generalized Other forms in the Judicial Side of our personality consisting of what we have come to believe is ethically right and wrong in society. The traditional, legalistic church tries to take the place of the Generalized Other where the good is God’s word, but this just transfers applied, disciplined, moral behavior that the world accepts and calls ethical and applies it to a new set of rules, which the church we belong to approves. It’s the same business on the other side of the street: applied will power and disciplined conformity to a new “good” (legalism). Jeremiah 18. VF-0650. © Copyright 1989