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   %MORAL LEGAL ADDICT DICHOTOMY REJECT ACCEPT EVIL 890710

     Moral legalists are addicted to various sets of rules
by   which  they  believe  personal  behavior  should   be
controlled.

     To moral legalists  there   are  only  two  kinds  of
people;  acceptable people,  and rejectable people.   Good
people  should reject all rejectable people as part of the
process  of being good people.  Not only is it permissible
to reject rejectable people, they should be rejected.

     Alienation is an  essential  tool in the  tool kit of
manipulative   techniques  of  moral  legalists.   Through
alienation control is to be achieved.

     People who are controlled by the  proper set of rules
are good and acceptable people.

     People  who are not controlled by the proper  set  of
rules are evil and rejectable people.

     To   moral   legalists  personal  acceptability   and
rejectability are determined in a simple way,  by  whether
or  not a person is willingly controlled by the proper set
of do's and don'ts.

     The   more addicted a self-righteous  moral  legalist
is,   the simpler life appears to be;  the easier it is to
identify  and  reject  evil people in  futile  efforts  to
control their behavior. Moral legalists are thus alienated
from people who are different from them in any significant
way.

     Moral  legalists  are not honest with  themselves  or
others   about  the  consequences  of  their  pattern   of
accepting  and  rejecting people.  They pretend  that  the
consequence  is good control of behavior;  and ignore  all
the  confusion,  alienation,  rebellion,  ignorance,   and
manipulative violence which it leads to.

     Moral  legalists  are not interested in personal  and
communal  integrity  which is encouraged through open  and
honest   dialogue  regarding  past,   present  and  future
decisions  and personal experiences.  They are addicted to
rules by which one may systematically sort people into two
categories; good and evil.

     Moral legalists do not have enough self confidence to
deal with the ambiguities, paradoxes and mysteries of real
living.   They are the product of their own logic.  Having
been  rejected often,  they lack self esteem,  and do  not
know   the   security  which  Love  gives   through   non-
manipulative personal acceptance.

     Love    does   not   accept   people   into  dialogue
according   to whether or not they are controlled by  some
particular set of rules.  Love does not reject people from
dialogue if they are not controlled by some particular set
of  rules.   Love's  acceptance is  not  the  manipulative
acceptance   which  is  the  flip  side  of  the  coin  of
manipulative  rejection.  Love's acceptance is a different
kind  of  acceptance  which is not part  of  an  addictive
effort to be in control.

     Love  does  not set up dichotomies of good and  evil,
acceptable  and rejectable,  heaven and hell.  It is moral
legalists  who set up such dichotomies,  and then live and
die  within  the hell which they created  and  worship  in
idolatrous ways.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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