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                 %COLLUSIVE TABOO AGAINST INTEGRITY 871013

     Participants  in  a  collusion may  with  moral  self
righteousness enforce a taboo against behavior which  with
integrity would expose their collusion.   Such enforcement
of  the taboo may be garbed in high sounding  defenses  of
high standards of morality;  yet the standards tend to  be
vaguely  articulated   legalistic  prohibitions    against
openness and honesty regarding authentic human experiences
and  the discussion of the significance of authentic human
experiences.

     To   avoid  disintegration  we  need  to  judge   the
enforcement of taboos in terms of the standard of personal
and  communal integrity:  does the enforcement promote  or
undermine  integrity?   All too often the  enforcement  of
taboos  has more to do with dishonest expressions of fear,
than  with  the promotion of both  personal  and  communal
integrity.  To be honest about fear will promote integrity
so  long as such expressions do not  mask  themselves   as
other than what they really are.  Expressions of fear must
be open  and honest admissions of fear for them to promote
both    personal   and   communal   integrity.     Fearful
authoritarian  legalists  are  not  likely to  openly  and
honestly  admit  that their behaviors are  expressions  of
fear.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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