This-essay is a8403301.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %TABOO INTEGRITY QUESTION 840330 How dare you question the integrity of such a leading citizen? Thus is enforced the taboo against questioning people's integrity. Under this taboo it is permitted to question how strongly and effectively people are committed to fulfill their ideals, but it is not permitted to question the integrity of people's ideals---how well the ideals "hang together". Because of the taboo, only technical questions may be asked, and technicians dominate discussions of ideals and values. The taboo concentrates political power in the hands of technocrats. The taboo functions to conceal its own operation, because, to reveal the operation of the taboo requires that we call into question the integrity of the people who reject anyone who violates the taboo. However, we should note that the process of rejecting people undermines communal, and therefore, personal integrity. Thus, those community leaders who enforce the taboo against questioning people's integrity---by enforcing the taboo undermine the integrity of their own community---and therefore such leaders lack integrity. To effectively challenge the taboo against questioning people's integrity---we must reveal how the taboo undermines: people's integrity, the integrity of our communities, and the ability of humanity to survive in a nuclear age. A nuclear war would clearly undermine the integrity of mankind. A nuclear war would be but a symptom that mankind lacked integrity before the war, and so a nuclear war would only make evident that there was a lack of human integrity. We must question the integrity of those who are leading us towards nuclear war. Do their ideals "hang together"? As we fear to question their integrity, they undermine the integrity of our communities, and so lead us towards war. We are in the process of selecting a new president. In the process we need to make our primary concern the integrity of the person whom we recommend to be our president. We need a president who will promote integrity. To select such a president we must be willing to call into question the integrity of each dishonest candidate who seeks to be president. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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