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%DEFEND SELF CONCEPTION PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY 931201

     Each  person finds it necessary to defend in one  way
or  another  their own conception of  their  own  personal
integrity.    Often other persons feel threatened  by  the
personal  integrity  of creative,   honest,   imaginative,
integrative,   unconventional,   non-conformal persons  of
integrity; and feel that they must attack the integrity of
such threatening persons.   Some people regard persons who
are   creative,    honest,    imaginative,    integrative,
unconventional,   non-conformal persons of  integrity---as
threats to the communal integrity.

     Our communities cannot persist  with integrity if the
members  of  our  communities  often  feel  threatened  by
persons  of integrity who are competently defending  their
own personal integrity.   The  integrity of the  community
ultimately depends upon  persons  of  integrity  surviving
with  integrity.     It is important for people  who  have
successfully   conceived  themselves  to   have   personal
integrity to be able to survive with integrity---even when
they are threatened  by people  who fear them, and who are
motivated by fear to act in disintegrative ways.

     We need to recognize,  name,  describe and talk about
the  disintegrative  acts of people who are  motivated  by
fear and attack persons of integrity.  It is dangerous  to
give  overt  or tacit support for  such  fearful  actions.
When  people are dominated by fear of any  kind and  their
actions  are both motivated and guided by  fear,  they are
not wise.  They lead others to behave in tragic ways which
they do not understand so they learn  a little if anything
from the consequences of their behaviors.  We are fools if
we who watch  learn nothing from the consequences of their
tragic behaviors.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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