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%SEEKING COHERENCE & INTEGRITY 840412
Personal and communal integrity are not achieved by
members of communities lacking coherence in their ideals.
Integrity resides in coherence of ideals. Where ideals
are incoherent there is not integrity and violence is
likely to be present. Whenever operative ideals are
incoherent, you can not be sure how people will
behave, and in the face of that uncertainty people
tend to be on the defensive. Security resides in the
confidence that your own integrity will not be violated;
therefore you need not be on the defensive. The act of
going on the defensive undermines security because
defensiveness undermines integrity by injecting
incoherent ideals into the fabric of the community.
Security through personal and communal integrity are
enjoyed by members of communities who enjoy coherence
among their ideals.
Conflicts occur between communities whose ideals do
not cohere with each other. When such conflicts exist
such incoherent communities are parts of a larger
community which lacks integrity and is characterized by
inter-community violence which may include war. The ideal
of achieving integrity within just a part of the global
community is inadequate. Global security is impossible
without global integrity which involves members of all
global communities enjoying coherence in their ideals.
Conflicts occur within individuals whose ideals do
not cohere internally within each individual. Individuals
may internalize ideals which are in conflict with each
other and/or with essential needs of the individuals
themselves. Such internalizations undermine personal
integrity and thereby undermine communal integrity and
security.
People and communities that lack integrity need to
seek coherence in their ideals through profound
conflict resolution pertaining to their diverse ideals,
ideas, values, and principles. They can not help
themselves by seeking more advanced technologies as means
to achieve their incoherent ideals which are in conflict
with each other. Such technologies will only make the
costs of the conflicts greater, up to and including the
possible cost of extinction.
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