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                           %EVIL IDEALS' ASSESSMENT 870203

     An  evil  ideal leads people to behave in  ways which
block the assessment of the consequences of the evil idea.
An evil ideal conceals  its own alienative consequences by
alienating  those  who respect it so they cannot  perceive
its consequences.   This is done by blocking personal  and
communal communication.    Evil  ideals compromise  and/or
violate personal  and  communal communication  rights  and
rites.   Evil ideals  inhibit communal rituals which might
expose the  consequences  of the   ideals  which  tend  to
disintegrate  persons  and communities.  To believe in the
worth  of evil ideals,  their personal  incarnations  must
believe that evil ideals can not  possibly exist.   Such a
belief lacks integrity, but the evil ideals still lead  to
disintegration which is invisible to those who respect the
misleading  evil  ideals.   Evil ideals  block  their  own
assessment.

     Evil ideals form part of the fabric of a collusion in
which  people play games of mutual self deception in order
to  hold together a pattern of perception and action which
lacks  integrity.    The  purpose  of evil  ideals  is  to
maintain  an appearance of integrity.   Evil ideals appeal
to people's desire to support integration;  yet they  lead
to disintegration because serving them entails the  use of
deception,  coercion,  threat,  rejection and violence  to
conform to the vision of integrity implicit in the ideals.

     Evil  ideals point to the achievement of integrity as
a  technical goal.   In such a vision the  achievement  of
integrity  entails conformity to some particular vision of
the  kind  of  behavior  which  is  a  regarded  sign   of
integrity.    Evil  ideals  prescribe proper behavior  and
demand the rejection of those people who do not conform to
the  prescribed  behavior.    Charitable   acceptance   is
proscribed because all acceptance must be conditional upon
conformity to the vision of achieved integrity.

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