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 %PERVERTED CONCEPTIONS PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY 880623

     Some individuals believe that the essence of personal
integrity  entails being independent of and not needing  a
communal context which has integrity.

     Some communities believe that the essence of communal
integrity  entails having communal control over individual
behavior to assure conformity to proprieties.

     Some individuals believe that the essence of personal
power entails being able to control the behavior of others
in keeping with personal desires and needs.

     Some communities believe that the essence of communal
power is the  elimination  of  people's personal  power to
have any individual identity.

     Perverted   conceptions  of  personal  and   communal
integrity  elicit  each  other in an  endless  process  of
disintegration---in  futile efforts to achieve control  of
the   perverted  conceptions  of  personal  and   communal
integrity.

     Personal  and communal integrity  are  interdependent
and  so  personal integrity is not possible apart  from  a
communal context which has integrity.

     Personal  integrity  entails  the freedom  to fulfill
personal potentials to grow in creative new ways which are
free of coercions.   Any form of control over  individuals
is inconsistent with personal integrity.

     When   a  response  to  a  perverted  conception   of
integrity fails to consider the ways in which personal and
communal integrity  are interdependent,  the  response  is
likely  to  promote further perversions of  conceptions of
personal and communal integrity.

     Integrity  is  not  served  by  simple  negations  of
misguided affirmations.   The negation of a disintegrative
statement  is  not necessarily an  integrative  statement.
The prohibition of disintegrative conceptions and behavior
is   not   necessarily   integrative   in   character   or
consequence.    The  essence of integration is not  to  be
found   in  negation  or  opposition  to   disintegration.
Perversions often flow from contrary conceptions,  beliefs
and attitudes.

     Personal   and   communal   integrity   entail    the
integration,    through  increasingly  open   and   honest
conversations/conversions,   of people trapped in contrary
conceptions, beliefs and attitudes.

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