This is http://www.essayz.com/a8607022.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SCIENTISTS TECHNOLOGISTS & SOCIETIES-2 860702 To pray for security with wisdom is to seek ways to b intimate with integrity. The essence of security is the freedom to be vulnerable with integrity. If it is not safe to be vulnerable you are not free t be vulnerable with integrity; you are not secure because it is not safe to be intimate with those with whom you most fundamentally disagree---because you do not agree upon how to proceed to reconcile conflicts among your highest ideals and values. Lacking such agreements you can not reconcile the peoples trapped in the conflicts among their highest ideals and values. New ideas about conflicts, security and reconciliation are essential. To pray for security is to seek ways to reconcile conflicts among people's most important ideals and values. This entails reconciliation among their conflicting ideas about what is most real and the possible relationships among their what is most real. There are intimate relationships among ideas about what is most real and ideas about what is most important. Conflicts among peoples are rooted in their differences regarding such ideas, ideals and relationships. To pray for security is to seek ways to reconcile such differences within family, school, business, religious, political, professional, etc. communities. Scientists, technologists and communities can not have unity without integrity. A society without unity is not a genuine community because it lacks integrity. It is without unity, without integrity. Scientists, technologists and societies which lack integrity do not enjoy security because they do not know how to reconcile their conflicts among their ideas, ideals, values and relationships. They do not know the way. When scientists, technologists and societies seek to achieve security through the technical efforts of scientists and technologists they are doomed to the most tragic possible failures because they have not analyzed the nature of security with integrity. They do not know how to be in dialogue with those with whom they most fundamentally disagree, therefore they can not reconcile differences about ideas, ideals and values which exist among their scientists, technologists and societies: and instead of enjoying security are perpetually defensive at great cost. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================