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   %DISINTEGRATIVE ARTIFICIAL CONSEQUENCES MORALITY 880624

     Some people have convictions and attitudes which lead
them  to create some artificial consequences in support of
what they believe to be proper behavior; i.e., rewards for
proper behavior and punishments for improper behavior.

     Artificial  consequences  sometimes  protect   people
engaged in  disintegrative  behavior---for  they are often
regarded  as  "good"  people because of their  high  moral
standards  and  respectable/powerful  positions.    Highly
ethical  and morally oriented people often undermine  open
and honest communication in their efforts to promote their
ethical  and  moral systems;   generating  alienation  and
estrangement  by  their  efforts  to  artificially  reward
"good" people and artificially punish evil people.

     Artificial  consequences   which  are   designed   to
supplement  natural  consequences  lead  to  communal  and
personal disintegration---especially in the  absence  of a
profound commitment to  keeping  open  channels  of honest
communication  as the glue which maintains the unity of  a
community.   A  community disintegrates when it sacrifices
open and honest communications in the service of promoting
any  particular  kind  of conformity;  even  if  there  is
unanimous support for that kid of conformity.

     Conformity is not the essence of communal  integrity.
Conformity which gets in the way of spontaneity,  honesty,
creativity,   initiatives,  intimacy,   imagination,  etc.
ultimately  leads to communal and personal disintegration.
Artificial  consequences designed to promote conformity to
some particular conception of proper behavior thus lead to
communal and  personal disintegration---to the extent that
the  consequence includes the breaking down of channels of
open  and  honest communication which bind  the  community
together into a coherent whole.

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