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%CONTROL COERCE VIOLATE PERSONAL INTEGRITY VIOLENCE 890720

     To  get a person to do something which is contrary to
their  most  deep nature requires coercion or violence  of
some  form.  In the absence of such coercion or  violence,
people  will  not violate their own integrity,   will  not
disintegrate  themselves.  Self disintegration is contrary
to the survival instinct by which humans evolved to  their
present status among living creatures.

     People know instinctively not to do violence to their
own integrity.

     Humans  have  evolved and survived not  only  through
efforts    to    survive    individualisticly.    Communal
activities  have  also been essential to  human  survival.
Communal  activities entail cooperative efforts which help
to  promote communal,  as well as individual,   integrity.
Communal activities often entail the encouragement of some
to do what the many regard as needful and proper;  perhaps
at great risk to the survival of the individual.

     The   human  dilemma is how to  balance  efforts   to
protect individual integrity against mis-guided efforts to
protect  communal  integrity.  It is not always clear  how
that is to be done.

     Often  efforts  to promote communal integrity  entail
the sacrifice of individual integrity;  e.g.,  in a battle
against  a  threat to the integrity of the community  some
individuals may die.

     In the interest of protecting individual integrity in
the  expression  of perceptions,  beliefs,   opinions  and
desires;   the community may have to sacrifice and  endure
significant embarrassment.  Freedoms of expression and the
advantages of honest expression of perceptions of creative
members of the community;  may appear at times to threaten
the  integrity  of the community if the integrity  of  the
community   is  the  artificial  appearance  of  integrity
created by a collusion which is led by powerful members of
the community.

     The   human   dilemma is how to balance  efforts   to
protect individual integrity against misguided efforts  to
protect  communal integrity.  It is not always  clear  how
that is to be done.

     When  efforts  to protect communal  integrity  entail
dishonesty, coercion of individuals,  and/or violations of
INDIVIDUAL integrity or communal integrity;  there is good
reason to doubt the integrity of the efforts.

     When  efforts to protect individual integrity  entail
dishonesty,  coercion of individuals, and/or violations of
individual integrity or communal integrity,  there is good
reason to doubt the integrity of the efforts.

     When  an individual is forced to do what is  contrary
to  the  integrity of the individual,  there  is  coercion
and/or  violence.  Such coercion and/or  violence  entails
some  form  of superior power;  physical,   psychological,
maternal,   paternal,  educational,  business,   economic,
political, religious, professional, police, parliamentary,
etc.

     Ultimately  the  use of superior power to  coerce  an
individual  or  community to do what is  contrary  to  the
integrity  of  the individual or community is an abuse  of
power;   and is in the end disintegrative,  not worthy  of
respect.

     These  considerations  apply to both public acts  and
behaviors; and to private acts and behaviors.

     There is violence when individuals and/or communities
are  coerced to behave in deceptive,  misleading,   and/or
dishonest  ways;  whether in open public situations or  in
private intimate behavior.

     There  is  violence when people feel that  they  must
express as their own some views,  perceptions,   feelings,
beliefs, and/or desires which are in fact not their own.

     There is violence when people feel that they are have
not  been given sufficient security for it to be safe  for
them  to  express as their own some  views,   perceptions,
feelings,  beliefs, and/or desires which are in fact their
own.

     The  unlimited power to coerce people or  communities
to behave in deceptive,  misleading, and/or dishonest ways
is  corrupting.   Corruption is a form of  disintegration.
Power  must  be  limited to avoid  personal  and  communal
disintegration.    Power  must  be  limited  by   systemic
expressions  of  honest  views,   perceptions,   feelings,
beliefs  and  desires within contexts  which  provide  the
security which is essential to honest expression.  In  the
absence  of  such systemic honest expressions,   there  is
corruption and disintegration.

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