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                %ADVOCATING DISINTEGRATIVE BEHAVIOR 860719

Does  the right to free speech,  press  and assembly
extend   to   people   engaged  in   overt   advocacy   of
disintegrative   behavior   which  would   undermine   the
integrity of persons and communities?   Should a community
guarantee  its  members  the  right  to  actively  promote
distrust, alienation,  suspicion,  anarchy and the general
disintegration  of  personal  and communal integrity?   Is
such disintegrative behavior which  makes no claim  and/or
has  no  credible  character  of  promoting  personal  and
communal integrity  worthy of respect on  the  grounds  of
freedom of communication being an absolute right?

     Might  legitimate rights  of freedom of communication
best  be served by the development of  clear  criteria  in
terms  of which to recognize disintegrative communications
which   are  not  worthy  of  respect?    To   claim   all
communications    should    enjoy   the   protection    of
communications  which  challenge  in  profound  ways   the
collusions and taboos of a society is better served by the
clear articulation  of  integrative standards for freedoms
of communication,  than  by unreasonable excessively broad
claims  that all communications  should  be  protected  no
matter how disintegrative  their  intent and/or effect may
be.

     Participants  in collusions are  likely  to  perceive
profound  challenges to their collusion as  disintegrative
in character,  and so they are likely to contend that such
communications   should   not  enjoy  the  protection   of
guaranteed rights of communication.  Thus the articulation
of  practical  standards  will  not be simple.   Practical
standards  will probably have  to  do with the  difference
between communications which entail  positive affirmations
which  bear the mark of  seeking  to promote personal  and
communal  integrity  and other  communications  which  are
characterized  by   denials,   negativisms, exclusivities,
excommunications, rejections, inhibitions, coercions,  and
other  features which tend  to  undermine personal  and/or
communal integrity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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