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                              %REJECTION---KINDS OF 861206

     Personal  rejection entails personal behavior tending
toward the reduction of personal dialogue between self and
the rejected person, and thus to alienation.

     Not all rejection is personal in character;  i.e., it
does  not  always entail personal alienation  through  the
reduction  of personal dialogue.   The wisdom of a pattern
of   behavior   may   be   rejected   without    rejecting
opportunities for dialogue  with the person who engages in
such  behavior. The  logic  which someone offers for  some
conclusion or course  of  action  may  be rejected without
rejecting  opportunities  for  future dialogue  with  that
person.

     Personal  rejection  goes beyond rejecting  something
associated with a person and tends toward the rejection of
future opportunities to be in dialogue  with  the  person.
Personal rejection accepts the reduction of dialogue as an
appropriate and reasonable consequence  to be   associated
with the rejection  of  that  which is associated with the
person.

     The rejection of inferior products, logic, reasoning,
data,   information,  ideals,  values,  etc.  need not  of
necessity entail the reduction of dialogue with people who
have  associated themselves with that which  is  rejected.
People   who   understand  the  ultimate   importance   of
maintaining   balanced  personal  and  communal  integrity
through  open  and  honest dialogue will  see  the  tragic
disintegrative  consequences  of  the  disintegration   of
channels of communication.

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