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     %DUTY NATION PROFESSION IDEAL VALUES INTEGRITY 921222

     Often people make their highest duty be their loyalty
to  a leader,  family,  clan,  city, nation,  state,  etc.
without regard to transcendent values, ideals and our need
for both personal and communal integrity.  They  in effect
become idolaters; worshipping that which is not God.

     We  need to take care to not fall into  the  trap  of
placing greater importance upon leaders,  families, clans,
cities, nations, states, professions and their like---than
is likely to  promote  personal and communal integrity. If
the  importance  which  we  place upon them leads us to be
unable  to resolve conflicts among them---and so leads  us
into  disintegrative unresolved conflicts and  wars---then
the importance which we place upon them is disintegrative.

     We  need  to seek to recognize misleading  priorities
before  they  lead us  into destruction.  Thus we need  to
develop     ways     by    which     to     assess     how
integrative/disintegrative our highest ideals,  values and
dominant duties are. This assessment cannot be made wisely
in keeping with  the ideals and values of  people  who are
preoccupied  with objectivity and with the primary foci of
scientists   and   scholars  who  seek  to   emulate   the
scientists' paradigm.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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