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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9304091.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %GOOD EVIL DICHOTOMY BLACK WHITE ABSOLUTE REJECT 930409 Many people believe that the good society is the society which is regulated by moral absolutes which define very clearly and unambiguously what kinds of people are good people and what kinds of people are evil people. Such believers choose the simplicity of sharp boundaries, simple criteria for making judgements, and clear cut condemnations of both proscribed behaviors, and instances of neglect in the case of required actions. Such people believe that good people should be in control, and bad people should be punished. They are highly critical of ambiguity, relativism, tolerance, forgiveness, and dialogue with evil people associated with the enemy. Alienation and estrangement from evil people are normal conditions, and accepted as part of being good people who pass correct alienative judgements upon evil people. To enjoy both personal and communal integrity members of a community need to transcend judgmental/dichotomous: perceptions, attitudes, thinking, ideals, and values. Combinations of judgmentalism, dichotomous thinking, insecure absolutism, preoccupations with control, presumably sharp boundaries, exclusive focus upon individuals rather than relationships, and defensive insecurity all lead to the hell of both personal and are communal disintegration---they do not lead to heaven. Dichotomous thinking is dangerous, especially when it serves the judgmental purposes of alienative people who presume to have the knowledge of the difference between good people and evil people. Personal boundaries in relationships can never be drawn as cleanly between blacks and whites as the boundaries between blacks and whites appear to be in geometric images on smooth surfaces--- until viewed under an electron microscope. Careful examinations of the boundaries between colors on fractal images can be very instructive to honest open minded people who are considering how sharply to try to draw personal boundaries within relationships in the presence of judgmental people. It is dangerous to take seriously the presumably sharp prescriptive boundaries drawn by dichotomous people who are not open and honest dialogue about how fuzzy the boundaries inevitably become---when the boundaries are examined up close, openly, and honestly by those people most intimately affected by the boundaries. It is dangerous to be compulsively preoccupied with dichotomous prescriptive boundaries which are drawn for purposes of trying to control relational realities which cannot be controlled in any integrative way. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================