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              %JUDGMENTS IDEALS DESCRIPTIONS PEOPLE 871104

     There are important differences among: ideals, value,
descriptions, people, behaviors,  etc.  It is important to
make  integrative distinctions;  to discriminate and  deal
with those  differences.    It  is  dangerous  to  fail to
discriminate between significant differences  and to treat
different realities  as  if  there  were   no  differences
between them.  It is also  difficult  to wisely select the
kinds  of discriminations to make,  and how to respond  to
the  recognitions  of the important differences  which  do
exist.

     One  kind  of  discrimination  is  at  the  level  of
description.  Descriptions  can   point   to   differences
clearly or ambiguously, fairly or unfairly,  accurately or
with distortion.  There are differences among descriptions
and  what  those differences in description lead to.    We
must make judgments as  to the  integrative/disintegrative
implications of various  descriptions which we  and others
offer  each  other.    Such judgments are clouded  by  our
participation in collusions, taboos and guilt trips.

     A second kind  of  discrimination  has to do with the
discriminative  selection of central values,   ideals  and
goals  for  our  lives.   Not  all of them  are  of  equal
consequence: some lead to communal/personal disintegration
and   others  to  communal/personal  integrity.    It   is
important  that  we be able  to  describe  accurately  and
share  such   accurate  descriptions  of the  consequences
of  our choices  as  regards  values,   ideals  and goals.
Our  affirmations   of  our  primary  ideals,  values  and
goals in   part depend upon our descriptions of them,  and
how we respond   to   descriptions   of subsidiary  ideals
and  the consequences to which they lead.

     A third kind of discrimination has to do  with how we
perceive people in terms of our ideals,  values and goals;
and  how we describe people:  acceptable or  unacceptable.
We  make discriminating  judgments  in  terms  of  how  we
believe  we should deal with people.   It makes  important
differences to   us  and  to  others  as  to just  how  we
regard  differences  between  us.    Disintegration  flows
from  the belief  that  it  is helpful  to  reject  people
who  are different in certain ways,  and accept people who
are   like  us    in   certain   ways.        A       life
full of  personal   rejections/acceptances    is  a   life
leading   to communal and personal  disintegration.     We
need  to be able  to  describe that reality accurately and
without fear.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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