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   %CONFRONT ADDICT IDEALIST HONESTY DEMAND CONTROL 900621

     Often  idealists  are addictive persons who  seek  to
manipulate  and  control  others.    Under  the  masks  of
respectability  they  seek to manipulate other  people  to
make them conform to the idealists' expectations.  For the
sake  of  the integrity of the community it  is  essential
that such idealistic manipulative techniques be confronted
and unmasked.

     In  open and honest ways powerful addicts need to  be
asked to articulate what their highest ideals are.    They
need  to  be asked to indicate what their  intentions  and
goals are.   If they wish to appear to be respectable  and
powerful  leaders,   they  should  be  willing  to present
themselves in ways  which  merit respect by indicating how
they intend to promote  communal integrity.    If they are
unwilling to  openly  and honestly  indicate their highest
ideals  and  values;   then they have been confronted  and
unmasked.

     If addicts' present ideals and values which cannot be
served  fully  without sacrificing personal  and  communal
integrity,   then the addicts should be asked to  indicate
why  they  are willing to sacrifice personal and  communal
integrity in the service of their ideals and values.  Does
their reasoning have integrity?  Does it make sense in any
reasonable  way?   Can they elicit open and honest respect
for  their reasons for sacrificing personal  and  communal
integrity in the service of their ideals and values?

     It   is   not   only   selfish   people   who   serve
disintegrative  ideals and values.   Often people who  are
willing  to  make  great  personal  sacrifice  also  serve
disintegrative ideals and values.  Such sacrificial people
are often willing to sacrifice their own integrity in  the
service   of  their  disintegrative  values;    but   such
sacrificial  giving does not promote communal integrity or
the  personal integrity of the members of  the  community.
The futility of such sacrifices needs to be unmasked.

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