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   %GOOD EVIL UNDERMINE PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY 910514

     Evil has  to  do with alienation which  involves  the
absence  of  the freedom to be open and honest  in  secure
contexts.   Evil has to do with the undermining of honesty
and  the  encouragement of  dishonesty.    Evil  processes
undermine  personal and communal integrity, by encouraging
dishonesty and discouraging honesty.

     People who  do  not know how to  deal  helpfully  and
creatively    with   their   own   and   other    people's
imperfections,  end up becoming alienated from  themselves
and from others.

     People who cannot openly and honestly articulate  the
imperfections of their conceptions of what is essential to
living with personal and communal integrity,  are bound to
become  imprisoned  by their inability to  cope  with  the
imperfect  ways in which they seek to fulfill their goals,
ideals,  and values.   If they cannot openly and  honestly
talk about the issues pertaining to dealing with their own
imperfections,  and the imperfections in their  systems of
values,    ideals and grounds for making judgements;  then
they  are likely to experience personal rejections due  to
misguided   judgements  made  within  the  context of    a
misleading  system of values.   They cannot be prayerfully
reflexive in seeking personal and communal integrity.

     Evil systems of ideals and values lead people who are
the  incarnation of such systems, into alienative personal
rejections  as ways of affirming the systems of ideals and
values.   Such systems undermine the personal and communal
integrity  of  the people who are the incarnations of  the
systems.    The  consequences of such systems  are  highly
reflexive,     even   if  the  system  is   focused   upon
objectivity, as is the case with scientists.

     Evil systems of ideals and values fail  to  encourage
their  incarnations  to  value  openness  and  honesty  as
essential  to personal and communal integrity;  and so the
evil   systems  of  ideals  and  values  encourage   their
incarnations  to sacrifice personal and communal integrity
as being expendable, when they get in the way of achieving
some highly valued goal; e.g. winning a war with objective
weapons  of mass destruction the use of which will reflect
back upon the users.

     Evil  systems   of  ideals  and  values  lead   their
incarnations to treat dishonesty an an acceptable tool  in
manipulative relationships and technologies which are part
of the process of achieving chosen goals;  e.g.,   gaining
control  of the impressions which other people have of the
manipulator.     Impression  control  thorough   deceptive
presentations   of  self  to  others  is  regarded  as  an
acceptable  technical procedure;  even though it leads  to
the  alienation of self from others and from self,  and so
to  the loss  personal  and  communal  integrity   as   in
extended international  conflicts  which are not  resolved
through cooperative reflexive dialogue.

     Evil systems  of  ideals  and  values  are  not  evil
accidentally;  they are evil because they do not embody an
ultimate concern for personal and communal integrity. They
are  evil because of what they lack,  not because of  what
they  include.   We cannot understand the essence  of  the
evil  systems of ideals and values by considering all that
they  include  and being critical of what is  included  in
them.    We can understand the essence of the evil of evil
systems  of  ideals and values,  only by finding  ways  to
point to  what  is lacking;  but to do so we  must violate
the  collusive   games  of mutual self  deception  of  the
addicts  and  codependents who dominate in the functioning
of   such systems.   Such dominant people are  participant
victims  who  are   the incarnation  of  their  incomplete
systems   of  ideals  and   values.       They   victimize
themselves   and   others   by  failing   to   demonstrate
adequate  concern  for  personal  and  communal  integrity
which  cannot  survive  in the  absence   of  freedoms  of
speech,  press, assembly, petition,  religion, and thought
which  enable  people  to openly   and   honestly  express
themselves  within secure contexts where they  can  safely
be vulnerable as themselves; rather than trying to deceive
other people to be conformally acceptable.

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