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   %HEALTHY SELF INTEREST MAJORITY RIGHTS INTEGRITY 900802

     Out  of  an informed sense of healthy  self  interest
each  majority in a community needs to work to protect the
integrative rights of every member of their community.

     There are as many majorities in a  community as there
are  issues upon which there is majority  consensus.   The
participants  in such majority groups overlap in a variety
of  ways.   The overlapping groups need to cooperate in  a
variety  of  ways to protect the right of members  of  the
minorities so as to protect their personal integrity.

     In the absence of majority cooperation to protect the
rights  of  members of minorities so as to  protect  their
personal  integrity,  the personal integrity of  the  most
creative members of the total community will be threatened
and  undermined.   Since personal integrity  and  communal
integrity  are  essentially interconnected (by  virtue  of
their  essences)   for each majority to  protect  its  own
communal integrity,  it must work to protect the rights of
all members to protect their own personal integrity.

     It  is  dangerous for a majority to directly  try  to
protect  the personal integrity of the minority members of
the community; for the majority will try to do so in terms
of the ideals and values of the majority,  not in terms of
those of the minority. It is essential that the majorities
work rather to protect the rights of minorities to protect
their own personal and communal integrity.

     Whenever  the majority groups of a community fail  to
work  to  protect the rights of all minorities to in  turn
work  to protect their own personal and  communal  rights,
then the consequence is the disintegration of the communal
integrity of all members of the community.

     It  is  often difficult to  distinguish  between  the
rights  of members of minorities to work to protect  their
own  rights,   and the desires and apparent needs  of  the
members of minorities to get for themselves other benefits
which  are  not essential to their personal  and  communal
integrity.   This  difficulty  is  especially  present  in
communities  dominated  by addictions,   codependence  and
collusive games of mutual self deception which confuse all
the  essential issues and truths.  In such a community the
creative members of minorities will honestly confront  the
dishonesty of the members of the collusive majorities, and
it is natural that the majorities will operate in terms of
taboos which will inhibit the rights of minorities to work
to  protect their own personal and communal  integrity  by
exercising essential communication rights.

     The   rights  of  all  members  of   communities   to
communicate   openly   and  honestly  their   perceptions,
feelings,  opinions, desires, fears,  hopes,  aspirations,
etc.  are essential to the personal and communal integrity
of  the  community.   Any  failure  on  the  part  of  the
majorities  of  a  community  to  protect  the  rights  of
minorities  to  work to protect  their  own  communication
rights, is a threat to the personal and communal integrity
of  all  members  of the total community;  and  should  be
treated  as  such by all members of the  community,   else
disintegration will set in.

     It  is  particularly important that there  be  strong
protection  of citizen's rights to honestly  confront  and
expose  the  dishonesty of powerful members of  addictive,
codependent and collusive games of mutual self  deception.
Such  exposure  is  sure  to be  experienced  as  painful,
embarrassing,   and  unwelcome  by  participants  in  such
dishonesty.   The participants will find it  difficult  to
distinguish between integrative honesty and disintegrative
violence.   Transcending  such difficulty will be all  the
more important if the participants are powerful members of
the  community who are greatly respected in spite of their
dishonesty.

     It is relatively easy to say that it is essential  to
protect  citizen's rights to honestly confront and  expose
the   dishonesty   of  powerful  members   of   addictive,
codependent  and collusive games of mutual self deception.
However,  it is certain to be very difficult to make clear
just  how such protection is to be implemented,   and  how
adequate  distinctions are to be made between  integrative
honesty,  which should be protected and encouraged on  the
one hand;  and on the other hand disintegrative  violence,
which  should  be confronted and dealt with  honestly  and
charitably to minimize the damage it may occasion.

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