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    %INTEGRATIVE THEORY EVIL ALIENATION REJECT HARM+931006
  %EXCLUSIVE EXCOMMUNICATE VIOLENCE FEAR JUDGMENTAL 931006

     A  truly  integrative theory of evil will help us  to
respond to the various  threats  to  personal and communal
integrity    in   kind   ways   which   promote    mutual:
understanding,  dialogue, respect, cooperation,  sympathy,
interdependence, encouragement,  complementation, support,
caring, concern and personal presence.

     We  need  to  regard  with  healthy  suspicion  those
theories  of evil which lead us to respond to the  various
threats  to personal and communal integrity in unkind ways
which  promote   unilateral,    communal   and/or  mutual:
misunderstanding, rejection, exclusivity, excommunication,
banishment,     ignorance,   neglect,   avoidance,   fear,
ridicule,    derision,   mockery,   antagonism,   attacks,
discouragement, and absence.

     A  truly  integrative theory of evil will help us  to
respond  to the following threats to personal and communal
integrity in kind ways as indicated above:

     1.  Actual violence and pain inflicted upon self
     and/or others.

     2.  Threats of violence and pain which might be
     inflicted upon self an/or others.

     3.  Anger, resentment, and inclinations toward
     revenge due to threats and violence; real or
     imagined.

     4.  Selfish violations of laws, rules and regulations
     which have been openly adopted through democratic
     procedures by duly elected representatives of all the
     people; i.e., elections  in which all the people
     could participate honestly without fear of reprisal
     within a democratic form of government which
     guarantees basic human rights to all members of the
     community.

     5.  Arrogant assumption of powers by a self-selected
     few people who seek to be in control (or appear to be
     in control) of the thoughts, desires, emotions,
     excrescences,    perceptions   and/or   insights   of
     themselves and others.

     6.  All forms of addiction and codependent support of
     addictions and addicts.

     7.  All forms of collusive games of mutual self
     deception in which people encourage each other to be
     dishonest in order to achieve desired fixes of self,
     others and situations.

     8.  Technocratic behaviors in which people respond to
     dilemmas as if they were technical problems.

     9.  Legalistic transformations of religions into
     tools used to  manipulate the poor, weak, naked,
     hungry and imprisoned---by the rich, strong, well
     clothed, well-fed and empowered.

     10.  Paradigms which give little attention to the
     personal and communal disintegration which they lead
     people and communities into --- through dishonesty,
     neglect, imbalance,  exclusivity arrogance

     An  integrative  theory  of  evil  will  not  promote
personal  and  communal disintegration;  but  rather  will
promote personal and communal integration.

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