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 %LAW CONTROL PERSONAL BEHAVIOR RESPONSE PERCEPTION 900316

     It  is  not prudent to let everybody do anything  and
everything  which  they may choose to do.   There must  be
some limits, boundaries imposed upon individual freedom if
the community as a whole is to survive.

     People  who  regard themselves as good  people  often
feel  that they know how those whom they regard as not  as
"good" as they are should behave.  Such "good" people fear
unregulated  behavior  and  take  steps  to  insure   that
undisciplined people are properly disciplined so that they
will behave as "good" people do.

     Upon what principles should such discipline be based?
How   are   un-disciplined  people to  be  brought   under
proper control?    To effectively bring them under control
it   is  necessary  to  control  whatever   it   is   that
leads   to threatening behavior;   e.g.,  their attitudes,
perceptions,    feelings,     understandings,    memories,
responses,   etc.    An effective  program of control must
be  comprehensive  if  it is to be effective.     Anything
less would be imperfect and not worthy of respect.

     The tragedy is that such "good"  people with the best
of  intentions  occasion  much  frustration,   resentment,
anger,       rebellion,     alienation,      estrangement,
misunderstand-standing,  conflict, violence,  etc.   which
they  do not know how to control.    They  rarely  respect
persons   as   persons;   respecting   persons   only   as
fulfillment  of  their   abstract  ideals.    Such  "good"
idealists   rarely  fulfill  their  ideals   because   the
fulfillment  of  their ideals would entail   more  control
than    is    consistent  with  personal   and    communal
integrity and health.   Their efforts lead to personal and
communal   disintegration  before  they  can  succeed   in
fulfilling their ideals.

     They  only  way  it  is possible to  appear  to  have
fulfilled  the  ideals  of such "good"  people  is  to  be
dishonest   regarding  the  real  world  of   uncontrolled
perceptions, feelings, memories,  responses; and dishonest
about not being  authentic  in  open  and honest  personal
relationships.    The  essence of their program calls  for
dishonesty  which  leads  to the disintegration  of  their
efforts and communities.

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