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   %SCOPE OF INTEGRATIVE VALUE IDEAL ETHICAL SYSTEM 871224

     Each  system  of  values may be characterized by  the
scope  of   integration which it promote.     Some systems
of  values are quite provincial and limited  in the  scope
of  integrity   which   they   promote  and maintain; they
are personally  or culturally self centered,   promoting a
provincial integrity at the immediate expense  of intimate
associates in a zero sum  competitive game.   Such systems
of   values  attend  to   only   a   limited  range     of
knowledge       regarding      reality      and      human
relationships. They do not merit respect.

     Systems  of  values   which   merit  respect  promote
both    personal   and  communal   integrity    in    less
provincial   ways.     They   promote  and  maintain   the
integrity  of  a  more  comprehensive  range   of   being,
through  respect for  a wider and more tolerant  range  of
knowledge regarding reality and human relationships.

     The  survival value of any system of values,   ideals
and  ethical  guidance  depends  upon  the  scope  of  the
integration  which  is  implicit  in  the  system.     The
survival-value  of  a  system  does not  depend  upon  its
pretenses, upon its claims;  but rather  upon the scope of
integrity which is  implicit  in  the  system.   The wider
the  scope   of  integration,  the  less  pretentious  the
system  is  likely   to be.     Modesty and  humility  are
characteristics  more  often  found  in   systems    which
promote   comprehensive    integrity,   than  in   systems
which promote provincial integrity.

     Any  system  which  survives  in a narrow  way at the
expense   of the integrity   of   its   environment,  will
ultimately   destroy  the   environment  upon   which   it
depends for its existence.

     Any system   which  survives  at the expense  of open
and   honest  dialogue   about  the  experiences  of   the
members   of the system,   will  sow the  seeds   of   its
own  destruction   in  the  disintegration  of   its   own
knowledge base.

     Systems  of  ideals and values which repress open and
honest    dialogue    lack   integrity,     and    promote
the  disintegration   of the community  and  persons   who
support the  system;  they are self disintegrative, and so
can   not survive   for  long.     They  promote  disorder
in   their environment, and so undermine their  chance for
survival.

     Systems  of ideals and values which have a chance  of
long term  survival  promote  integration  in  the  widest
possible   environment  for  each  kind  of   environment:
spiritual, physical,    social,   religious,    political,
economic, scientific, temporal, etc.

     Social  systems  cannot  survive in violation of  the
second law of thermodynamics regarding increasing entropy,
chaos and disorder within all ISOLATED systems.  Isolation
leads to disorder and confusion.

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