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             %PRIORITIZING ULTIMATE VALUES & IDEALS 870301

     It  is  relatively  easy to get a  group  of  diverse
people  to agree upon trivial matters which none  of  them
regard as of great importance.   It is difficult to get  a
group (even of similar dispositions) to agree upon matters
which many of them regard as of great importance.   It  is
most  difficult  to  get people to agree upon  matters  of
ultimate importance to them;  too much is at stake.   Thus
it  is  difficult  to get people to agree to  changes  the
process of developing communal consensus, or to agree upon
criteria  in  terms of which to assess  the  propriety  of
traditionally ultimate ideals and values.  Yet, ultimately
people who are committed to inappropriate ultimate  ideals
and values do nor survive, nor do their ideals and values.
This  fact  may  be used as a  suggestion  regarding  what
values and ideals are ultimately important.

     Ultimately important values and ideals do not lead to
the ultimate survival of individuals,  for no  individuals
ultimately  survive as embodiments of ideals and values in
this world.  For ideals and values to survive they must be
as embodied in a  people, a community coherently committed
to the ideals and  values with  integrity.   If ideals and
values lead to personal and communal disintegration  it is
not  possible for  the  ideals  and values to  survive  as
embodied in a people, in a com-unity.

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