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In a paternalistic community a few father figures
seek to promote the welfare of the community in an
authoritarian-benevolent manner. Under their system of
governance most members of the community are cast in the
role of children including a few elder brothers and
sisters. The role of the father figure is to be supremely
competent, authoritative, and benevolent. The role of the
children is to be submissive, adoring, cooperative and
obedient. The nature of justice is defined by the father
figure. No external authority intrudes into the ideal
paternalistic community---because all its problems are
solved internally. To invite external authority to intrude
into a paternalistic community is to say that its father
figure has failed to be supremely competent,
authoritative, and benevolent. Such an invitation will
naturally prompt assertions of competence, authority, and
benevolence.
Assertions of authority within a paternalistic
community are likely to occasion repression of expressions
of doubt about the love, power, or justice of the father
figure; communications will be blocked and alienation will
thus be generated. Sin is the condition of blocked-
communication, of alienation, of estrangement. Thus
paternalistic communities are characterized by sin with
its bitter fruits of frustration, anger, violence,
fragmentation, and lack of integrity. Members of a
paternalistic community can not be true to their own
natures, because they must conform themselves to the role
defined for them by the benevolent-competent-authoritarian
father figure. There are no provisions for appeal of
decisions, judgments, role casting, etc. of the father
figure within a paternalistic community --- for such
appeal would presume intrusion of the broader community
into the paternalistic community.
Some paternalistic communities include what might be
an external check on the excesses of paternalism---a board
of directors. When the board of directors is part of the
"happy family" which is the "ideal" paternalistic
community, then the father figure has supporters whenever
the father figure's decisions judgments and role casting
are appealed. Such a board of directors will work to
maintain the paternalistic system and its father figure.
Justice will be denied.
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