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      %INDIFFERENT PERSONAL INTEGRITY IDEALS VALUES 890310

     Personal integrity suffers when ideals and values are
affirmed   without   respect  for  the  effect   of   such
affirmations upon the integrity of persons.

     Communal  integrity suffers when  personal  integrity
suffers.

     Thus  communal  integrity  suffers  when  ideals  and
values are affirmed without respect for the effect of such
affirmations upon the integrity of persons.

     It does violence to persons to ask them to compromise
their  personal  integrity  in the service of  ideals  and
values. It does violence to persons to ask them to pretend
that  no  violence  is  done to them  in  asking  them  to
compromise  their  personal  integrity in the  service  of
ideals   and   values.   Such  violence   undermines   the
foundations of communal integrity.

     When people cannot be open and honest about their own
integrity  there  is no solid foundation  for  a  coherent
communal integrity.  Communal integrity depends upon  open
and  honest conversations which are characterized by  both
vulnerability and security.

     Ultimately  all meaningful ideals and values must  be
related to personal and communal integrity; else they lead
to  the disintegration of all persons and communities that
affirm  them with without regard to personal and  communal
integrity.  That which has disintegrated is no affirmation
of  whatever  lead it in its disintegration.   Ideals  and
values  which  lead to disintegration are  not  worthy  of
respect or further affirmations.

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