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                     %VIOLATION OF INTEGRITY RIGHTS 871110

     Some acts are legal, but immoral or unethical.   Some
acts are moral and/or ethical but are illegal.   Some acts
are  legal,  moral and ethical;  but violate the sense  of
propriety  of insecure people whose lives are dominated by
fear  which  is  not  clearly  focused.    All  of   these
considerations  depend  greatly upon culture,  time,   and
place.    No one culture can provide a definition in terms
of  which  to make sound judgments of the adequacy of  the
provisions  of  any  other  culture.    The  propriety  of
distinctions  are contextually dependent.   Standards  for
judgment which are appropriate within one cultural context
are not appropriate within another cultural context.  Yet,
we   may  reasonably  ask  if  there   principles   and/or
guidelines which transcend the differences in cultures.

     Wise   decisions  take  into  account  the   cultural
context.    No  culture can reasonably hold the view  that
members of other cultures should not take into account the
local cultural context in making wise decisions  regarding
how to most creatively  interact with members of the local
culture.

     Wise decisions should lead to the enhancement of both
personal and communal integrity of the participants in the
decisions  and of the persons affected by  the  decisions.
In a global sense wise decisions enhance both personal and
communal integrity.   It is absurd for any culture to hold
that truly wise decisions will lead to the  disintegration
of its culture and its members.

     The promotion of both personal and communal integrity
is  essential  to any culture and to the survival  of  its
values,   ideals  and  community.   No  culture  can  with
integrity  work  to sustain any of  its  cultural  aspects
which function  in ways which  undermine personal/communal
integrity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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