Difference and its ineradicability

Honig sees difference as something that is inherent and a part of the human condition. The problem of difference is that people attempt to flee from it. The ways in which this is done, according to Honig, occur through purely utilitarian ethics which, "... treats agents as point in the line of a satisfaction system, it obligates them to preform even very unpalatable actions if those actions are necessary to produce utilitarianly preferred outcomes." (Honig 263), and through adhering purely to ones integrity which, "consists in her being the sort of person who refuses to or is unable to dissociate herself from her emotions, feelings, principles, or projects even for the sake of a larger or more general good." (Honig 263) the reason that these two ways of dealing with ethical questions are flights from difference and dilemmas is because they are done as though it is outside oneself. From a standpoint that ignores the differences of the people involved. Honig suggests that the way to combat this is to work in coalition, among people with differences, and to realize that the comforts of home are imaginative projections of a life that cannot be and that we should be honest of the reality that the foundations on which we base this imagination of home may in fact be at the cost of the freedom of others. So then, through facing the reality of difference and working in coalition people will become de-centered and be more democratically inclined to change the institutions that ignore difference.