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 %BALANCE COMPETITION COOPERATION COMMUNAL PERSONAL 900504

     For a community and its members to enjoy health   and
integrity  there  must be a healthy balance  between  time
spent  taking  care of self,  taking care of others,   and
participating in cooperative communal endeavors.

     There  is  no amount or  quality  of  individualistic
efforts   which  will  compensate  for  the   absence   of
participation    in   cooperative   communal    endeavors.
Cooperative  communal endeavors are not any collection  of
individualistic efforts, they are qualitatively different,
and  in  the clear absence of  such  cooperative  communal
endeavors, personal health and integrity is not possible.

     There   is   no  amount  or   quality   of   communal
efforts which will compensate for the absence of a healthy
concern for taking care of self.  Personal care of self is
not an  aspect of cooperative communal endeavors,  and  no
element  of  collective behavior can  compensate  for  the
absence  of  a healthy self regard and healthy  effort  to
take care of self in an independent way.

     Maintaining  a  balance between  individual  care  of
self, and participation in communal cooperative efforts is
essential to both personal and communal health.

    Competitive       individualistic     efforts   become
meaningless  and  futile  in  the  absence  of  a  healthy
context  maintained  by cooperative  communal  activities.
Communal     cooperation    becomes   oppressive  in   the
absence   of   freedom  to engage in  healthy  competition
motivated by a reasonable desire for personal advantage.

     Health depends upon balance, and balance cannot exist
in the presence of an excess of one aspect, at the expense
of another essential aspect.

     Dominance by a strong aspect over a weak aspect leads
to  dis-ease  and poor health for all who are involved  in
such  an  imbalance.    Neither  aspect  is  good  to  the
exclusion of the other.  In excess, either aspect leads to
alienation which is evil.

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