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 %DICHOTOMOUS REASON THOUGHT ATTITUDE BELIEF ACTION 931215

     Dichotomous reasoning, thought, attitudes and beliefs
often lead to dichotomous actions.   When people act as if
only they can be:  right,  righteous,  good,  benefited or
acceptable---then it is  impossible  for  their  community
to   enjoy  communal integrity.    Dichotomous  reasoning,
thought,     actions  and  beliefs   undermine    communal
integrity  and  so  undermine personal integrity---because
they  all insist that it is important to  make  alienative
distinctions,     differentiations,    rejections,     and
conditional acceptances.

     In their  efforts  to  insure  that suspicious people
behave  properly  many  dichotomous  people  insist   that
unregulated    affections   in    healthy    interpersonal
relationships   be replaced  with conformal expressions of
propriety.   Such efforts  generate  many  failures,  much
frustration,   festering resentment,   hidden anger,   and
uncontrollable  violence---as   people seek  to   discover
and  assert  their  own  integrity in   response  to  such
regulatory violence.

     Personal and communal integrity are not the fruits of
any systematic  plan affirmed by self-righteous regulators
who  think  they know how to make bad people  behave  like
good   people   in  a  dichotomous  world   where  careful
distinctions, differentiations, rejections and conditional
acceptances are regarded as essential to the good life.

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