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 %CORRUPT POWER VIOLENCE COLLUSION ADDICTION HONEST+930211
   %COERCIVE CONFORM REBEL VIOLENCE CONFLICT HEALTH 930211

     Coercive  conformity  engenders conflict and violence
through  rebellion  against  the  coercive  pressures   to
conform.  Coercive conformity is not healthy,  and healthy
people  naturally  rebel  against  coercive  pressures  to
conform.

     Behavior   may   conform  to   expectations   because
expectations  are  based upon the presence  of  a  healthy
situation  in which people are free to do what is good for
them;   and  they  wisely exercise  their  freedom.   Such
conformity is not coercive.

     Behavior  may  not conform  to  expectations  because
expectations  do  not take into account the absence  of  a
healthy situation and the reality that people are not free
to  do what is good for them.  In such  situations  people
often  exercise  what  freedom they have in  the  form  of
rebellion  against  pressures  to  conform.   A   coercive
pressure to conform is unhealthy even if the  standards to
which  one  is expected to  conform  would  be  reasonable
standards of expectation  in a healthy situation. However,
the  existence of coercive pressures to conform eliminates
the possibility of a healthy situation in which conformity
to the standards  would  be  wise. Conformity  to coercive
standards of conformity  is  not wise  if  yielding to the
standards undermines  personal and/or  communal integrity;
e.g., by engendering dishonesty.

     Coercive  pressures  to  conform invite and encourage
dishonesty.  Even if it appears that people are conforming
very well, personal and communal disintegration are likely
to be present through the  processes of growing dishonesty
about  hidden  thoughts,  feelings,   and  desires.   Thus
conformity  to good standards of  behavior may  go hand in
hand   with   the  processes  of  personal  and   communal
disintegration;   if  the conformity  takes  place  in   a
coercive context. Dishonest conformity is disintegrative.

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