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           %RIGHT TO COERCE DISINTEGRATE CONFORMITY 860913

     Leading members of a conformal community believe that
they have the right to coerce conformity to the behavioral
standards of  the community.   Their belief is  consistent
with  their  belief  that proper behavior  is motivated by
factors outside each person,   by  the requirements of the
community.   In their view  proper behavior is  defined by
community standards and enforced by the community.   Apart
from communal  coercion,   they believe, individuals would
fall into  patterns  of improper,  immoral,  unethical and
illegal behavior; for such falling is the natural thing to
do.    Communal  coercion  is the only way  to  keep  such
natural  behavior from occurring.   It is only natural for
man-made   order  to  degenerate  into  natural  disorder.
Constant  maintenance of the order which  has been created
by  man  is necessary in order to do  God's  will.    Thus
members  of  an  orderly  community  have  the  right  and
responsibility to coerce each other into conforming to the
communal standards of proper behavior.   God works through
man  to  create  the order which God naturally  could  not
create.   Only  through man can God create the order  that
should exist.

     Man's natural tendencies are perverse.   Man must  be
coerced to do what is right for man to do.   Thus some men
who have the superior knowledge to know what man should do
are  called  upon  by God to  coerce  other  men  who  are
perverse  to  do  what is right.   This all  seems  rather
disorderly, and lacking in integrity.

     Perhaps  God  created man with  a  natural  integrity
which is fulfilled in communities  of integrity.   Perhaps
the disorder comes from some men seeking  to coerce  other
men  to  compromise their personal integrity to conform to
what  the self-righteous  believe  they  have a  right  to
coerce others to do.   Disorder naturally follows from the
violation of natural integrity; the violation of integrity
leads to disintegration.  How  can anybody claim the right
to do violence to personal integrity through coercion---to
force people to do that which leads to disintegration? How
can coercion lead  to communal integrity by doing violence
to personal integrity?

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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