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   %COMPETE MORAL ETHICAL GOODNESS SUPERIORITY LOVE 890620

     In  a  competitive  society there is a  tendency  for
members to compete for that which is regarded as being  in
limited supply.   In races and athletic competition  there
is  a limited supply of prizes and the contestants compete
to receive one of the limited number of prizes.

     In everyday life there is a limited amount of  money,
consumer goods,  personal attention,  consideration,  etc.
and members of a competitive society are driven to compete
to get ahead of others in the race to be a winner.    Self
esteem  is  often based upon being among the best  in  the
race   for   the  limited  supply  of  what  is   coveted.
Competitors learn to covet that which is in limited supply
and  to  compete  to  get it and possess  it  rather  than
letting others have and hold it.

     Human attention is limited.  Human energy is limited.
Human tolerance is limited.   Competitors tend to  compete
for limited resources which they regard as the key to self
esteem.    Moral  and ethical people who  are  competitors
compete  for  moral and ethical affirmations which are  in
limited  supply.   To win,  others must lose.   Moral  and
ethical  competitors  are as interested in  seeing  others
lose,  as they are in winning;  for they believe that they
can  win only if others lose.   Some must go to  hell  for
them  to go to heaven.   It must be clear that others  are
going  to hell for it to be clear that they are  going  to
heaven.    Thus  moralistic and  ethical  competitors  are
interested  in making it clear who is going to hell,   and
who is going to heaven.

     These competitive habits of mind and heart often lead
to personal and communal disintegration.   It is important
that  contestants learn to be honest with  themselves  and
with  others  as  to the consequences of  their  misguided
competitions.    If they cannot learn from their misguided
competitions they will disintegrate and their  communities
will disintegrate.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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