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   %LEGISLATE LAW LEGAL FIX CONTROL ADDICT JUDICIAL 930126

     There  are  some  social  dilemmas  which  cannot  be
resolved  through  legislation,  law  enforcement,   legal
procedures,  judicial procedures,  or any other attempt to
control the behavior of non-conformists.  It is futile and
wasteful of  communal resources to  attempt  to so resolve
such dilemmas.  The real dilemma is to know how to be wise
enough  to recognize what dilemmas can/cannot be  resolved
through such attempts to be in control.

     If  we  are wise we will seek to find honest ways  to
respond to dilemmas, ways which  do not entail attempts to
control  what  cannot  be controlled.  Good intentions  in
legislation, law enforcement,  legal procedures,  judicial
procedures, and  other attempts to control the destructive
behaviors of  non-conformists  is not enough.  We need  to
have a sympathetic understanding the the roots,  reasoning
and   logic  of  the  people  whose  behaviors   we   find
distressing.   We need to be in open and  honest  dialogue
with  them if we want to helpfully influence them   toward
integrative patterns of attitudes, thoughts,  feelings and
behavior.   Any  efforts  to control them will alienate us
from   them   and   undercut   the   possibility   of   us
constructively  influencing them through open  and  honest
dialogue.

     Many  highly respected efforts  to  resolve  communal
dilemmas  are at root efforts to control destructive  non-
conformists---and  so  the  efforts  alienate  the   well-
intended people who initiate such efforts, from the people
whom  they  seek to control.  Such efforts are similar  to
addicts' efforts to  find  ways to fix what is wrong  with
personal lives. Communal efforts to fix what is wrong with
the communal life---which are  patterned after the efforts
of  addicts to fix what is wrong with personal lives---are
doomed  to  failure.  Yet,  addicts are not  into  dealing
honestly with failures,  not into learning from  failures;
and  so they repeat mistakes and respect repeated mistaken
efforts to resolve dilemmas through alienative procedures.

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