This is http://www.essayz.com/a9407091.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.} ========================================================== %NECESSARY SUFFICIENT RULES REGULATION LAWS CONTEXT 940709 The previous considerations suggest that rules and regulations are not sufficient in many contexts; more is needed to promote both personal and communal integrity. There are many contexts in which rules and regulations can play helpful roles. Thus the abolition of all rules and regulations would not be helpful. There are contexts in which it is helpful to tolerate some rules and regulations which are formulated in the most integrative way possible. This is not equivalent to saying that in every situation there are some rules and regulations which are essential to personal and communal integrity; neither is it equivalent to saying that in each situation there are some rules and regulations which are essential to personal and communal integrity. In all situations there are better alternatives to the reliance upon rules and regulations; but often those better alternatives are not conceived and realized. Some people believe that in all situations there are some rules and regulations which are essential to personal and communal integrity. Such people become up-tight and contentious in tense ways when (in some situations) there is no respect sh own for the need for rules and regulations. They believe that rules and regulations are both necessary and sufficient in all situations, and they view any indifference towards rules and regulations as blasphemy. Such legalists are loyal to rules and regulations which they worship, and so engender much alienation and many evil relationships. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================