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  %DEFEND INJUNCTION COMMAND PROHIBIT PROBABLY HARM+930830
   %HURT VIOLENCE POWER ALIENATE MISUNDERSTAND EVIL+930830
   %EXCOMMUNICATE DISINTEGRATE ILL DISEASE SICK SIN 930830

  It is hard to meaningfully and convincingly defend
generalized:

     injunctions,   commandments,      prohibitions,

     laws,          moral codes,       and their like

     which are not connected to experiences and defendable
     predictions of reasonably probable:

     harm,          hurt,              violence,

     alienation,    misunderstanding,  excommunication,

     illness,       diseases           sickness,

     war,           disintegration,    and their like.


     It is good to look at the generalizations pointed  to
by the first  set  of  words above   and  note whether the
consequences  of people respecting them have in  the  past
lead to the kinds of human experiences which  are  pointed
to  by the second collection of words above.    Compulsive
defense of generalizations without any  reference  to past
uncontrived   human  experiences  regarding  the  probable
consequences of respecting them may  amount  to idolatrous
worship of the generalizations---in violation of the First
of   the  Ten  Commandments  recorded  by  Moses  in   the
wilderness.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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