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%COMMUNAL VS PERSONAL INTEGRITY 851109
The community which asks its members to compromise
their personal integrity in order to put on a deceptive
show of communal unity thereby undermines the integrity of
the community and so is a collection of people without-
unity.
Community is not possible without personal integrity.
Personal integrity is not possible without community.
Both are essential and interdependent. To compromise one
is to undermine the other. The pretense of one involves
the pretense of the other, and so undermines both.
Integrity can not be achieved by pretense for pretense is
the antithesis of integrity.
When appearances become ultimately important then
integrity is totally lost. When what others think and
feel about you is more important to you than what you
really are, then appearances become ultimately important
both personal and communal integrity are lost. Being
coherent with personal and communal integrity is more
important then appearing to be respectable in ways which
satisfy conformal standards of acceptability.
People who are willing to excommunicate you for
failing to conform are not worthy of personal respect;
they lack personal integrity and sacrifice communal
integrity in excommunicating people. There is little
point in maintaining false appearances to earn their
shallow respect.
Communities should respect and support only that
which genuinely respects and supports both personal and
communal integrity. Ideals and values which ultimately
lead to communal disintegration are not worthy of communal
respect and support. The difference between the two needs
to be made evident, and people (prophets) who reveal the
differences are worthy of great respect and support. Yet,
it is usually such people who are crucified for their
creative efforts, for they undermine the taboos and
collusions of the powerful members of each society which
values conformity more than creativity, judgment more than
reconciliation, excommunication more than forgiveness, and
evil more than love.
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