This is http://www.essayz.com/a9403221.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %DIFFERENT KINDS INTEGRITY CREATURE PERSONS RELATE+940322 %CONFORM REJECT ACCEPT LOVE ALIEN SCI DEVIL ENEMY+940322 %COLLUDE ADDICT CODEPEND TECHNOLOGY DISHONEST FAIL 940322 Different kinds of animals obviously have different kinds of integrity; different ways of being whole and healthy. Different cultures obviously have different kinds of integrity; different ways of being whole and healthy. In like manner, different kinds of people have different kinds of integrity which do not depend upon conformity to any one universal kind of human integrity. Integrity is not a matter of conformity to some ideal form. Integrity is not achieved through conformity to any ideal form; nor through being molded into any ideal form. Conformity is not worthy of respect, as is integrity; for conformity can be and often is dishonest, but integrity cannot be dishonest. Objectivity is not the key to reflexive integrity, for objectivity and reflexivity contrast with each other. Personal integrity is not objective integrity because personal integrity entails reflexivity. Communal integrity is not objective integrity because communal integrity entails reflexivity. Religious legalism, fundamentalism and extremism are not the keys to personal or communal integrity --- because they do not foster open and honest relationships among people who trust each other and are trusted by people who are different. They do not point the way to salvation. The truths pointed to herein may be encountered and recognized with a bit of reflexive reflection---but they cannot be proven or dis-proven with any amount or kind of objective manipulations, preaching, or quoting of scholars or scriptures. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================