This is http://www.essayz.com/a8703131.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF EVIL BEHAVIOR 870313 The ideological roots of evil behavior are to be found in the ultimate ideals which tacitly are used to justify judgments of, condemnation of, and personal rejection of; people who fail to conform to systems of morals, ethics, legalistic control, taboos and collusions. Such ultimate ideals are systematically supported by alienative means and used to justify the judgmental use of such means. People who are ultimately committed to such alienative ideals block the assessment of such ideals with threats of the ultimate consequences of their commitment to the ideals: alienation, estrangement, misunderstand- ing, resentment, frustration, ignorance, fanaticism, violence, etc. Beware when alienation flows from well intended people tragically committed to ideals which have not been assessed in terms their ultimate consequences. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================