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%DISCIPLINE SHOULD REQUIRE DUTY FORBID LOYAL ADDICT 930502

     People  who  are  dominated  by  addictive  attitudes
and patterns  of thought are often compulsively  concerned
with issues of control;  and with the use of legal  rules,
moral laws,   required disciplines,  duties,  loyalty  and
obedience  as  means  to exercise control over  unreliable
people  who are prone to non-conformity.

     Such people find  it  difficult  to  let  go of their
compulsive  concerns  with  issues of control  and   means
to  exercise control.   They find it nearly impossible  to
perceive  human  relationships  apart  from  questions  of
control and/or loss of control.   Their questions  are not
whether  or  not  it is healthy  to   be   concerned  with
issues   of   control,    and whether  attempts to  be  in
control  promote  personal  and communal integrity?  Their
questions are focused upon which techniques of control are
best,   who  is to be in control, and what requirements of
conformity are to be enforced?

     People who are  dominated by  addictive attitudes and
patters  of   thought   cannot  understand  that   it   is
possible   for  people to live  healthy   lives  involving
honestly intimate relationships which are not the  product
of   any form of:  control,   legal rules,    moral  laws,
required  discipline,   duty,     loyalty   or   obedience
imposed  from outside.   To consider such a possibility is
too  threatening  for them to contemplate.    They  cannot
without  bias  seek  to  discover  if  such   people    of
integrity  do exist.   They  are  prone  to approach  such
liberated  people  of integrity in a way  which  makes  it
risky  for  such   liberated  people of  integrity  to  be
honest and reveal their true natures.

     People  who  are  dominated  by  addictive  attitudes
and  patterns  of thought are made uncomfortable when  any
person  of  integrity  teaches that it is  good  to  visit
prisoners in their prisons  of disintegrative   attitudes,
ideals    and  values---to  liberate  them  from  whatever
imprisons them, to cloth the down-trodden people of little
political power in vestments of self-esteem, to feed those
who  hunger for the truth with true descriptions  of  real
human  experiences,  or to  bind  up  the wounds of  those
violated   by   efforts to control them.  Such  people  of
integrity  have been crucified for  teaching  such  things
in  word  and   deed,    for they threaten  the  power  of
dominant people to be in control,  or to at least   appear
to   be  in  control.    Honesty is not appreciated   when
it  reveals  the the collusive  games   of  mutual    self
deception   of   powerful  people   who   are  preoccupied
with issues of control.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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