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 %REALITY OF HUMAN INTEGRITY GROWTH DECAY LOVE EVIL 890112

     Human  integrity  has  to do  with  human  wholeness,
health,   coherence,  cooperation,  and communal wellness.
Human  disintegration  has to do with the  loss  of  human
wholeness,  health,  coherence,  cooperation and  communal
wellness; the loss of human integrity.

     It  may help for us to think of human integrity as  a
coherent  reality  to  which  each  human  decision/action
contributes or subtracts.

     Integrity is not some thing which any person can  own
and control as a personal possession;  yet it is that  for
which we all yearn.

     Integrity  has to do with the wholeness of the  human
community  and  so with the wholeness and health  of  each
human  and  each human relationship.  Only such  wholeness
brings genuine human satisfaction.

     That  which threatens the wholeness of the  community
as a whole,  or the threatens the wholeness of any  member
of the human community subtracts from human integrity, and
so from human satisfaction.

     That  which  contributes  to  the  wholeness  of  the
community as a whole,  or contributes to the wholeness  of
any member of the human community,  thereby contributes to
human integrity as a whole and to human satisfaction.

     When  individuals make it their individual purpose to
gain  as  much for themselves as they can,  they  tend  to
behave  in  ways which  temporarily  and/or  superficially
satisfy  themselves at the expense of human integrity as a
whole.

     Systemic   individualism  leads  to  systemic   human
disintegration which ultimately satisfies no one.

     The  desire to get ahead of others at the expense  of
overall human integrity leads to human disintegration in a
systemic way.

     Individuals who make it their purpose to gain as much
for  themselves as they can,  do not merit our respect and
support;   for  ultimately  they  are a  threat  to  human
integrity  as a whole.  They try to satisfy themselves  at
the  expense of human integrity.  Their failures  lead  to
intensified  attempts of the same kind which led to  their
failures.

     When people cooperate with each other in contributing
to communal and individual integrity, human integrity as a
whole  grows and the human community becomes more coherent
and satisfying to all members.

     Individuals  who make it their purpose to  contribute
as  much  as they can to human integrity as a whole  merit
our  respect  and  support;  for ultimately they  are  the
leaven  which leads to the growth of human  integrity  and
satisfaction.   They realize the possibilities  for  human
integration   and  thereby  lead  the  way   towards   the
fulfillment and enjoyment of those possibilities.

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