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  %NEGLECT FOCUS ATTEND PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY+940104
 %HUMAN PERSON BEHAVIOR AMBIGUITY NAME DESCRIBE JOY+940104
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     Human behaviors may often be regarded as contributing
to either increased personal and communal integrity; or to
progressive personal and communal disintegration.   At the
same   time  there  is  often  ambiguity  as  to   whether
particular behaviors contribute more to human and communal
integrity;  or to  human and communal disintegration.   In
spite of the many occasions of ambiguity there are regular
patterns  as  to what kinds of human behaviors  contribute
more    often   to  integration,   and  what   kinds    of
behaviors  contribute  more often to disintegration.    We
need  to learn how  to  recognize such  regular  patterns,
and  regard  the various   kinds  of  human  behavior   in
the  light   of recognitions,     namings,    descriptions
and discussions of such regular patterns.

     These considerations are essentially reflexive. Among
the  kinds  of behaviors which are either  integrative  or
disintegrative are the behaviors which have to do with how
we regard other  behaviors which are either integrative or
disintegrative.     It   is   disintegrative   to   regard
disintegrative   behaviors  favorably,   with  respect  or
tolerance.    It is integrative to  regard  disintegrative
behaviors  critically,   openly,  honestly and  with  full
recognition of the kinds of consequences which  flow  from
them.     It  is  disintegrative  to  regard   integrative
behaviors as grounds for rejecting people, avoiding people
or criticizing people as not conforming to proper patterns
of behavior.    It is  integrative  to  regard integrative
behaviors  favorably,  with respect or tolerance.    It is
usually    disintegrative   to     regard   disintegrative
behaviors   as  grounds  for rejecting  people,   avoiding
people  or criticizing people as not conforming to  proper
patterns of behavior.   It is rarely integrative to reject
people     or     avoid   people   because    of     their
disintegrative   behaviors;   and  it  is  almost   always
disintegrative to pretend otherwise.

     Behaviors which  involve  any of the  many  forms  of
manipulation,    coercion,   deception,   misleading,   or
violations  of human beings are usually disintegrative  in
their   consequences;   and  rarely  are  they  worthy  of
favorable    consideration,    respect,   or   affirmation
through  tolerance.     Such  behaviors  include  treating
humans  as objects,    means to ends,  and without respect
for  their unique  forms  of  integrity.    Such behaviors
are   often characterized  by dishonesty and violence   of
covert  and overt forms.

     Behaviors  which   encourage   openness,    dialogue,
intimacy, cooperation,   mutual  understanding,   balance,
responsiveness,   and  liberation  from  constraints   are
usually integrative in their consequences;  and are rarely
worthy of negative criticisms,  intolerance or punishment.
Such behaviors include  treating humans as equals who  are
unique individuals worthy of personal attention,  time and
respect.

     Some behaviors  focus  attention   upon   integrative
considerations     and     away    from     disintegrative
considerations; and so are  integrative in nature.   Other
behaviors     focus    attention    upon    disintegrative
considerations  and away from integrative  considerations;
and   so  are  disintegrative  in  nature.     Neglect  of
integrative   behaviors   and   considerations   is   thus
disintegrative.    Compulsive concern with  disintegrative
behaviors and considerations is also disintegrative.

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